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1: Augmented Genesis (edited)
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Harriet woke up in her bed.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 2:05 PM
She looks at her phone to check the date and time.
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It is the day after she went to sleep. It's about 7AM.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 2:09 PM
She wonders if the day after she went to sleep is a work day.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 2:17 PM
She remembers that it’s a Monday.
2:18 PM
She looks at her calendar to see when her first meeting today is.
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She's set for 10AM.
2:22 PM
Unrelated, but Harriet can't seem to get the image of a sewer out of her head.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 2:24 PM
“Weird dream,” she thinks to herself.
2:25 PM
Harriet looks around for her cat, Benny. Seems he didn’t decide to sleep w her tonight. She gets out of bed to fill his bowl.
2:31 PM
Benny hears the sound of food being poured and runs up to eat.
2:32 PM
Harriet goes to the bathroom to brush her teeth
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Benny eats the food.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 5:58 PM
Harriet finishes brushing her teeth and makes some coffee.
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SeanNiebellIsOverParty is trending
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:02 PM
This trends like every other week what did he do now #SeanNiebellIsOverParty
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Sean Niebel Official @LEIBLINCCEO The official account for Sean Niebel, president of Leiblinc. (edited)
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Grizz Soniaquill 5/28/2022 4:47 PM
FUCK YOU @LEIBLINCCEO! GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY! #SeanNiebelIsOverParty #FuckSeanNiebel
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SeanNiebelOfficial: I would like to personally confirm that these allegations are entirely false. This astroturfing campaign has spread nothing but lies. I apologize for the mass confusion, and have a good day.
4:47 PM
(This tweet receives barely any notice.)
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Grizz Soniaquill 5/28/2022 4:51 PM
Not true
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:03 PM
@LEIBLINCCEO ratio
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:06 PM
Sean Niebel has done something bad again. Water is Wet. If only changing jobs was easy.
6:07 PM
Harriet already didn't particularly enjoy going through the hassle of a job search. On top of that, even in the year 202X, many potential employers had poor disability accommodations. So she was stuck with an asshat like Carl Tucker for the foreseeable future.
6:08 PM
She continues getting ready for the workday.
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No issues arise while getting ready.
6:16 PM
"Come on! I'm going to die!" Harriet hallucinates this for a moment.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:18 PM
Harriet is confused. It's too early in the day for the negative intrusive thoughts like this. It almost feels like she didn't even think it herself.
6:18 PM
But there is work to be done so she shrugs it off and exits her apartment, entering the elevator to head down to the parking deck.
6:21 PM
Assuming nothing crops up, she gets in her car and drives off to work.
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Nothing stops this.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:29 PM
She checks the time when she arrives.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:31 PM
"What on earth??"
6:31 PM
Harriet rushes into the office, hoping Carl wouldn't be so harsh today.
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Harriet makes it to her office.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:34 PM
She couldn't believe it'd somehow become 2PM. There was never any moment during her morning routine where she seemed to have gotten distracted. How could there just be a gap in her memory like that?
6:34 PM
She checks her work e-mail.
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Nothing new since last time.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:37 PM
She shoots an e-mail to Alexi asking for meeting notes from the one she missed, and begins work.
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Immediate reply from Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:39 PM
"That was quick." She thinks. Harriet looks at the reply.
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Notes:
  • I was bored
6:40 PM
This is the entire email.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:41 PM
She rolls her eyes. Well hopefully nothing too important was discussed. "Are you ever not bored?" She replies.
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No response from the email, but Alexi walks over in person.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:50 PM
"Oh, hi"
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Harriet feels the strange compulsion to point to herself.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:54 PM
She resists the compulsion.
6:54 PM
Things are very strange today.
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"Hey." Alexi smirks.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:56 PM
"What's up?"
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"You asked when I'm not bored, so I'm contemplating how to phrase this example." He attempts to grab your computer.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 6:59 PM
"Hey!" Harriet secures her computer. "What gives?"
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"I wouldn't be bored smashing it on the ground. That's my example." She shrugs confidently.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:04 PM
"I think you'll find the following unemployment that results to be very boring." "Now shoo I have a lot to catch up on"
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"Your loss." They left.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:09 PM
Harriet works.
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Harriet has the sudden compulsion to strangle herself.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:10 PM
She resists that compulsion too.
7:11 PM
"What is happening??" Harriet heads to the break room for a glass of water. (edited)
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Carl is in the break room.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:13 PM
Harriet tries her best to shrink herself and just grabs a cup of water hoping Carl says nothing.
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He kicked the chair forcefully, before exiting the room angrily.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:20 PM
She shudders. And drinks another glass of water.
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The water is drank.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:44 PM
She goes back to her seat.
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Harriet feels compelled to slap someone.
7:48 PM
((Returning to her seat implies she was standing, is all I'm saying))
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:49 PM
((Ableist idioms))
7:50 PM
Harriet claps her hands to see if the compulsion to slap is satisfied.
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She now wants to restrain someone with rope.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:54 PM
"Okay I need some air." she thinks. Harriet exits the office.
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Carl blocks off the elevator.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 7:58 PM
"Oh hey Carl. I was just going out for some air."
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Harriet feels the urge to kill someone.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:07 PM
She braces her arms against her sides.
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Carl grabs the wheelchair, and wheels it off towards the stairs.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:22 PM
“What the fuck are you doing?!”
8:23 PM
Harriet attempts to elbow Carl behind her.
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"Hey guys, look at her!" He keeps trying to bring her there.
8:26 PM
((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:27 PM
NAT 1.
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Harriet is dragged to the very top of the stairs, as Carl very slowly tips the wheelchair forward. His gang of yesmen let out forced laughs, as Carl tries to force out a look of superiority.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:32 PM
“ALEXI! HELP!!”
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:33 PM
13.
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Alexi arrived. "What the fuck are any of you doing?" She kicked Carl in the shin.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:36 PM
Harriet tries to move away from the staircase.
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This succeeds successfully.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:40 PM
"What the hell is wrong with you! I know you don't like me and I know you're an asshole but I thought physical violence was a step too far for even you."
8:42 PM
Harriet looks around to see if the HR guy was standing around cheering on Carl as well.
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He was.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:48 PM
Her face falls. There never was a point was there. Every time, the ones she wants to trust aren't there for her. No matter what fancy platitudes people plaster on their websites, this world hates her. The rage Harriet was feeling seems to simmer down in an instant, replaced with an overwhelming numbness. She silently heads back to her station to pack up her stuff so she can go down the elevator.
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Carl groaned, kicking the wall repeatedly as she left.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 8:53 PM
Harriet drives straight home. She wants to be with Benny.
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Harriet feels the desire to show everything she is holding
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 9:10 PM
Harriet shows everything she is holding.
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Harriet feels the desire to somehow stand.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 9:15 PM
"What is coming over me?" She thinks. Harriet cautiously attempts to stand.
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This does not succeed for very obvious reasons.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 9:16 PM
((Oh my god I was going to be so mad if that worked.)) (edited)
9:16 PM
Harriet steadily gets back in her chair. "God what is wrong with me today."
9:17 PM
"Maybe I need a nap." She thinks. She goes back to her bedroom.
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Benny is on the bed.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 10:00 PM
“Hey there you rascal” she sits on the bed and pets him.
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Benny purrs.
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 10:08 PM
I love Benny
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 10:45 PM
@NotsoElusiveSentasaurus Who is this?
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am I truly not recognized by anyone, I guess my youtube views were pretty accurate, much to my dissappointment
10:48 PM
"Im the Elusive Sentasaurus, and I LOVE LAYTONS MYSTERY JOURNEY"
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Bob Smith
"Im the Elusive Sentasaurus, and I LOVE LAYTONS MYSTERY JOURNEY"
Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 10:51 PM
Oh I was, asking about the character mainly. I don’t really care who you are. Who’s Layton?
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@harrifairy you love benny right, this is benny
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@harrifairy you love benny right, this is benny
Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 10:55 PM
Benny is the name of my cat. This other Benny looks funny I guess.
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@harrifairy ok but is your cat the main antag of laytons mystery journey
10:57 PM
@harrifairy thought so
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@harrifairy ok but is your cat the main antag of laytons mystery journey
Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 10:58 PM
is this an anime
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@harrifairy yes
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Harriet Kadin 5/28/2022 10:09 PM
Harriet lays down and rests. It would be easy to reflect on everything that’s happened but right now she just wants, some peace.
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Harriet falls asleep and ends the chapter.
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2: Advent Guards
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Harriet woke up in her bed.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:16 PM
She checks the time.
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It’s 5 in the morning.
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((Wait fuck Sorry, rewind))
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:37 PM
((okay,)) (edited)
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There is a semi-transparent humanoid figure wearing a bloody white suit looking over her bed. The figure’s head is completely obscured by bandages, with the exception of 2 eyes.
2:39 PM
((Kind of important detail perhaps))
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:40 PM
She jolts back and screams. What the fuck is this thing?
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They don’t react.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:46 PM
How did this get in here?? She reaches out to her phone so she can dial 911. (edited)
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They try to hand it to her.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:48 PM
((hand what))
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((The phone))
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:56 PM
"AAh!" She screams again. The figure doesn't react again. She hesitantly reaches out to take the phone from their hand. Are they not trying to kill her?
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They shake their head.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:58 PM
"You can, read my thoughts?"
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They shake their head again.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 2:59 PM
"Then what was that?"
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No response.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:05 PM
"You need to leave."
3:05 PM
She'll need to get the locks changed later.
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They vanish.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:12 PM
She's in shock.
3:13 PM
This thing can teleport??? Locks are useless then.
3:13 PM
"Hey come back!"
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They reappeared.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:17 PM
She's shocked again.
3:17 PM
Harriet nervously points toward a notepad and pen on her dresser. "If you can't talk can you explain yourself some other way?"
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Harriet feels the sudden desire to enter a restaurant storage room and open a box.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:21 PM
How have these not stopped! It's 5am none of the restaurants nearby are even open.
3:21 PM
She turns back to the stranger making sure they registered what she asked.
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They shook their head.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:22 PM
"You can't write?"
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They shook their head.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:30 PM
"I don't know which part that's negating... maybe I should've asked the question differently." Harriet grabs the pen and paper and hands it to the figure. "Do something!"
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They take it and then stand still.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:37 PM
She's starting to get frustrated. "What do you want from me?!"
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No response.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:52 PM
Okay. She takes a deep breath. This thing can just vanish and appear at will. Is it a ghost? And she has no idea what to make of this situation. Was it just pretending to understand what she was saying? "Hey ghost, can you uh, play rock paper scissors?" She reaches out her fist to indicate she wants to play a game.
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They reach out their fist in return.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 3:55 PM
"Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot" She plays paper.
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They play paper.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 4:04 PM
"Are they just copying me.." She thinks. "Let's play again" "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot" Harriet holds back from playing her move though. She wants to see if the ghost was intending to make one themself. (edited)
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Harriet feels the sudden desire to lift up someone's leg.
4:05 PM
They don’t do anything.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 4:06 PM
Alright then. This ghost has the cognitive capability of an animal. Heh, maybe they'd get along with Benny. As if on cue, Benny walks into the bedroom.
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Harriet feels the sudden desire to let go.
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Harriet feels the sudden desire to walk into the figure, grab it’s hands, and hold them against her lap.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 4:41 PM
It seems docile.. Harriet reaches out to touch the figure.
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Harriet’s arm goes through.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 4:52 PM
She jerks back. Okay this really is some kind of ghost. It doesn’t seem bothered for some reason.
4:53 PM
So after several experiments the only thing she has confidently learned about this thing is that she can make it leave and come back. Very helpful.
4:53 PM
She has no other ideas. But maybe someone else does.
4:53 PM
Harriet calls Alexi
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Straight to voicemail, which is a series of bizarre insults.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 5:09 PM
That was weird. She shoots them a text instead. “Do you believe in ghosts?”
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AB: what kind
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 5:14 PM
HK: the kind that’s standing in my bedroom
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AB: whos ur dealer
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 5:17 PM
HK: look I’ll send a picture
5:17 PM
She opens her phone camera and attempts to take a photo of the ghost
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Nothing registers on the picture.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 5:18 PM
HK: I know how this seems but they’re not showing up in pictures
5:18 PM
HK: can you just come over
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AB: weird ask for a date
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 5:38 PM
HK: god shut up. You’re the only one I know who’d even entertain me right now
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AB: i have a shift. always down to end capitalism for the homies but i hate hippies too
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 6:47 PM
HK: are you calling me a hippie?
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AB: u say u wanna talk to ghosts n shit
7:12 PM
AB: so yeah
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 7:22 PM
HK: okay well. You’re free to show up after work then.
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AB: y don’t u bring the ghost to work
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 7:25 PM
HK: I sure as hell don’t work there anymore after what happened yesterday
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AB: yeah you do
7:30 PM
AB: come back now
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 7:52 PM
She facepalms. Fine she’ll go back to the office just to entertain Alexi. Not like she’ll be responsible for doing any work in her current intending to formally quit state.
7:52 PM
Harriet gets up to leave, checking to see if the ghost will follow her.
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They follow.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 7:58 PM
It would probably be bad if other people saw this thing on the way to work. “Hey can you disappear yourself for now?”
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They vanished.
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 8:05 PM
Having minor control over the world’s most useless familiar is pretty funny to be honest.
8:05 PM
Harriet makes her way down to the parking garage and heads to the office.
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((End session))
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Harriet Kadin 6/18/2022 8:06 PM
((Sounds good))
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Harriet arrived at work.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 2:37 PM
She looks around.
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What is she looking for?
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 2:42 PM
She’s looking to see what the people are doing. Where’s Alexi? Where’s Carl?
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Carl isn’t here at the moment. However his computer is open anyway. (edited)
2:46 PM
Alexi is at his desk minding her own business.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 2:53 PM
She approaches Alexi. “Okay I’m here. Happy?”
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"No." They responded without looking at Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 2:59 PM
“Neither am I. Do you want to see the ghost or not?”
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"Sure, fine. What’s your little magic act?" She smiled and looked up.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:02 PM
“You want me to do this in the middle of the office?”
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"Are you scared?" His smile turned to a smirk.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:07 PM
“I just don’t want to cause a commotion.”
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"But I do."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:12 PM
Alexi clearly wasn’t going to be leaving their desk. “Fine.” She says exasperatedly. Harriet turns to the empty space behind her and calls out. “Uh hey, you can show yourself now.”
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The figure appeared. No one reacted.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:15 PM
She feels uneasy. Are they really just that engrossed in their work? “So how’s my magic trick?”
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"What? That’s it? Where’s the trick?" Alexi groaned, disinterested.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:21 PM
“Can you not see it?!” She points at the ghost.
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"Is your trick just gaslighting? Pretty lame attempt."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:28 PM
“Why would I lie to you”
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"So you’re just delusional? I’m not sure I see the improvement."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:33 PM
“Okay wait, this thing handed me my phone this morning they can interact with objects. Hey ghost can you grab Alexi’s pen?” She points at it (edited)
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They lifted up the pen.
3:37 PM
"Okay now I'm seeing the magic trick part, I guess."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:41 PM
“I guess you can’t see them, but there is a semi-transparent humanoid figure wearing a bloody white suit floating around. They can’t talk, and it doesn’t seem like they properly comprehend even yes or no questions enough to give me any information, but they do listen to me. I have no idea what any of this means.”
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"Alright, I'll play along. Make them write down Carl's bank info."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:48 PM
“They don’t know how to write, at least from what I’ve tested.”
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"Well that sounds like self enforced limitations. Is your trick too limited for me?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:53 PM
“It’s not MY trick.”
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"Prove it. Write his bank number down."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 3:59 PM
“I understanding that demonstrating knowledge I shouldn’t know is the only way you’ll believe another entity exists here but, I feel like they have no knowledge at all.”
3:59 PM
“Regardless, if you think of them as an extension of myself that’s fine too. I just need some insight into what’s happening to me.”
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"What's happening to you is that you're losing your mind." The figure wrote out the word "Ability" on a piece of paper.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:05 PM
“YOU CAN WRITE?!”
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They nodded.
4:10 PM
"Hey, my eardrums!" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:12 PM
“I’m sorry I’m sorry. Hey can you write down Carl Tucker’s bank account information then?”
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The figure moved towards the open computer at Carl's desk and began writing.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:14 PM
“Alexi they’re writing they’re writing!”
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"The... bank info?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:22 PM
“Hopefully? Ghost bring it over here after you’re done.”
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The ghost returned with the bank info. Password, credit card info, everything.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:28 PM
Her jaw drops in shock. “Okay well. Do you believe me now?”
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"Hmmm...." Alexi examined the paper and used it to buy shitty audio editing software.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:42 PM
She side eyes him a bit. Tucker is an asshole who obviously deserves this, but something makes her feel like Alexi isn’t exactly stealing in retribution. “…just don’t get caught okay?”
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"Mhm." He winked. "Guess I'll trust you."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:47 PM
“You think you can help me make sense of this now?”
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"Not particularly. Ghosts are real and make embezzlement easy. Where's the need for an explanation?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:51 PM
“Why me??”
4:52 PM
“Who gave me the power to control them?”
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"Who gives a shit?"
4:53 PM
"Just use it to your advantage. Something something capitalism."
4:53 PM
Carl entered now. "Wow guys, I think I am THIS close to a promotion!" He clapped for himself. His yesmen returned with awkward and uncertain cheering.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:55 PM
“Having to speak commands out loud is a bit of annoyance...” she mutters. (edited)
4:56 PM
“Wait a second. Didn’t you try to hand me my phone before even though I didn’t verbalize it? Ghost can you hand me that pen?” She thinks.
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The figure handed Harriet the pen.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 4:59 PM
She pumps her fist. Awesome. “Ghost I want you to put a thumbtack point up on Tucker’s seat before he sits down” she thinks. A smirk comes to her face.
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The figure moved a thumbtack there.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 5:03 PM
((JIM.))
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 5:27 PM
Does Tucker sit on it?
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He’s too busy bragging to his "adoring" fans.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 5:48 PM
Harriet looks around. Are any of his adoring fans holding anything?
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They’re holding their keyboards and mouses.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 5:54 PM
Another devious thought enters her mind. "Throw the HR guy's keyboard at Tucker, but don't making the snatching obvious so that it seems like it came from him." She commands the ghost.
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Carl was hit in the face by a keyboard.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 6:38 PM
She grins and pumps her fist, but in a minor way such that noone notices.
6:38 PM
"I could get used to this." she says to Alexi
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"Hey! Who the hell was that?" Carl clutched his head.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 6:43 PM
Harriet points at the HR guy. "It was Levinson sir!" (edited)
6:44 PM
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((NOOOOO))
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"Levinson!?" Carl looked hurt. "I… I thought we were besties."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:01 PM
Besties?? Harriet nearly barfed in her mouth.
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"I didn’t do anything, Carl! I bet it was the wheelchair girl! Somehow!" Levinson.
7:19 PM
"Hey, she has a name you know. We respect our harassment victims here." Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:21 PM
"...I'm sitting all the way over here, and you're missing a keyboard. This is one thing you can't pin on me asshole."
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Levinson looked to her very confidently and responded "I’ll try." with absolute seriousness.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:23 PM
"It's useless."
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Carl approached Harriet with bitter tears. "I need to offer you an apology. You know… Through all these years, I treated you like awful dirt and insulted you… It was all for the approval of these men."
7:27 PM
"And I got that approval so... I mean, it was definitely worthwhile."
7:28 PM
"But now that I know Levinson, someone so close to me... Would betray and mock me like this...?"
7:28 PM
"I mean... I really owe you an apology for the fraction of that harassment that applies to Levinson specifically."
7:29 PM
"And as thanks for you forgiving me now... I'll even offer you some words of advice as a bonus. "
7:29 PM
"I really think... This office would like you more if you like... Smiled more? That make sense? You're so unhappy all the time, like it's just kind of natural we hate you."
7:30 PM
"Plus the wheelchair's a whole annoying mess, you get me? Like, just learn to walk?"
7:30 PM
Carl moved away from Harriet. "And with that stunning diplomacy. All is forgiven. Even you, my old friend Levinson." He clapped for himself, which caused everyone else to clap except Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:31 PM
;LDKJGASDG
7:31 PM
((im lterally dying holy fuck))
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((I had like 3 messages planned but I kept getting inspired to add more shit Carl would say))
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:42 PM
Harriet's heart twisted again. After what happened yesterday, she'd resolved herself to not hope for better, but clearly those first 3 sentences, that glimmer of self-awareness, was enough to raise her spirits just a little, only for it to all come crashing down around her again. She kicked herself. "When will I learn? This world will never change for me. I'm just a pebble in this unrelenting typhoon. If I keep waiting for it to calm down, I'll only continue to shred my already meager existence." For as long as she can remember, she hasn't been able to fight back. Being wheel-chair bound is a self-explanatory disadvantage, but even considering other means it was impossible. There's no way she could've afforded a lawyer to litigate what happened yesterday or any the other numerous abuses. Even the stipulation of only having to pay her attorney under the condition she won a suit against Leiblinc, well what would be the point in that. Any compensation for damages wouldn't be sustainable for long. She'd have to end up working at another shithole just like this, after enduing months of legal pain. No, she had to resign herself to it being impossible. Hope would have destroyed her. But today is different. "So let me get this straight. Tucker, you want me to smile?" (edited)
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((The company is called Leiblinc. I'm fairly sure I told you this?))
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:44 PM
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((1984))
7:46 PM
"Yeah. That was among the things I said." Carl stopped clapping, and then raised his hand up in the air to silence everyone.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:47 PM
She commanded Ghost to drop a ceiling tile on Tucker's head. And she smiled.
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The figure cannot reach.
7:55 PM
"See? Much better." Carl smiled back.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:58 PM
She nervously sweats. Performance issues are to be expected. Well, don't fix what isn't broke. She tells Ghost to repeat the keyboard maneuver but with a different guy.
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A keyboard hits Carl HARD against the face, he fully falls over.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 7:59 PM
There we go. Now her smile can be satisfactorily smug. She wheels over to the elevator, prepared to leave.
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"See ya tomorrow!" Alexi called out cheerfully.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:08 PM
“Please don’t make me come back Alexi.” She enters the elevator.
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Carl ran to the elevator. "I am also taking a stance against unhappiness and keyboard throwing here!"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:15 PM
“I’m extremely happy sir. Please move away.”
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He entered the elevator, and pressed the button for the floor with the CEO's office. "Sorry but uh... This elevator's kind of occupied."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:18 PM
“Press and hold on the door open button.” She mentally commands. (edited)
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The figure does this.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:24 PM
“There’s more than enough room for 2 people.”
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"Well... Yeah... But like... You know. A man and a woman riding an elevator together?" He gestured as if unable to phrase the correct words.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:29 PM
“Then you can stand out here and I’ll be on my way.”
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"Come on now... I'm your boss here. I'm a feminist, I don't live by sexist rules like 'ladies first'."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:38 PM
((How many floors are in between this one and the CEO’s office?))
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((Gonna say like 3 or so))
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:41 PM
((Can you increase the number))
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((Weird request but sure))
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2022 8:43 PM
There are unfortunately no conveniently placed objects to bludgeon Tucker with at the moment. But she can at least greatly annoy him. She tells Ghost to press every button for the floors on the way to the CEO's office and then leave the elevator. "Suit yourself."
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The figure does this.
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The elevator closed it's doors, and left.
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((You're on Friday))
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Harriet Kadin 7/5/2022 1:14 AM
((okay!))
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The elevator closed it's doors, and left.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 11:11 AM
((Wow it closed and left twice))
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((I repeat the oldest message as a starter!!!! You know what I mean))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 11:14 AM
((Yes Ik lol))
11:15 AM
Harriet sits and watches the elevator floor indicator stop at every floor on the way up
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After a while, it eventually stops at the CEO's floor.
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Is Harriet going to do anything,
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 11:41 AM
((Sorry!))
11:41 AM
She is satisfied, and turns back around to see what’s happening in the office.
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Everyone's getting back to work, seemingly.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 11:44 AM
Boo. Guess the chaos didn’t have any staying power.
11:45 AM
Harriet begins to chastise herself for the elevator plan because now she’s only delayed her own escape from the office. “I wonder how strong you are Ghost. Can you carry me down the stairs yourself?”
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The figure tries to lift the wheelchair, but fails.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 11:53 AM
She decides to engage in some more mischief to alleviate her boredom. “Unplug every computer here. No one should be able to fall back into their work.”
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The figure does this.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 11:55 AM
((What does the everyone else do))
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"Hey did a fuse just blow?" One of them stood up.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:00 PM
“Is there any superglue around here?” She wonders “If there is can you apply it to his seat while he’s standing up”
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The figure went into a storage closet.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:07 PM
This is amazing. Ghost really can find things beyond the scope of her knowledge.
12:09 PM
“Oh is this happening today? I thought we had at least a couple more until the computers turned off.” She said out loud, with a bit of raised volume to get peoples attention.
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"The computers are turned off?" Famous character Levinson asked.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:13 PM
“Oh I shouldn’t have said that… Tucker told me not to tell anyone.”
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"Huh? Why not?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:18 PM
“He kind of slipped it on me by accident too before swearing me to secrecy. So um, Leiblinc is downsizing in response to recent scandals and this entire floor is being let go. They’re converting it into storage I hear.” Tucker places all of his self worth in his scope of control. If she can manage to disrupt that, even a little, by getting them to walk out with her, then that might be her greatest victory yet today.
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"What!?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:24 PM
“I guess he didn’t know how to break the news to us. But hasn’t he seemed a bit, stressed to you lately?”
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The elevator began to go back down.
12:27 PM
"Yeah, I guess…"
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:29 PM
“Anyway if the computers have shut off that’s the end of the line I think. No reason to stay here if you’re not getting paid for your time.” She says a bit hurriedly, stressed that Tucker will show and ruin everything before anyone’s even left.
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"No way! They can’t just fire us like this!"
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:38 PM
“There’s a decently generous severance package if you accept it quietly! Any comments made in complaint to any superiors, including Tucker, will dissolve the package. This was part of the fine print in our employment contracts you guys remember this right? It’s probably best to just leave quietly.” She blurts hoping it’ll keep her plan a secret.
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The elevator doors opened, and 2 men stepped out. 1 was Carl, but he was simply timidly following behind a very serious looking Shuichi Maoziwam.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:40 PM
((Who the fuck))
12:41 PM
((Is Harriet supposed to know who this is))
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While I am handing out the characters everyone knows let it be known that EVERYONE is aware of a rich guy named Shuichi Maoziwam(I obviously did not name him). He is a rich guy who lives in town and has the online presence of (this is only a spoiler if your character doesn't use twitter and stuff)like a cross between Elon Musk and Ted Cruz. If you don't know what this means just imagine a pathetic guy who really wants you to think he's cool but also has moments of incomprehensibly funny things when he's trying to be serious.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:44 PM
What is Shuichi Maoziwam doing here… He doesn’t have any real connections to Leiblinc as far as Harriet knows.
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"Well, Carl, your section doesn’t seem to be too organized. You’ve got the disabled rolling around in here during business hours." Shuichi. "Uh, no she’s… She’s actually an employee here." Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:52 PM
((Damn it just never stops))
12:53 PM
She looks at what Maoziwam is holding with him, if anything.
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Nothing.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 12:55 PM
She inspects Tucker the same way.
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"Really now?" Shuichi looked at Harriet like she was an object. "Not exactly great hiring work. It would take far too much difficulty for someone like her to blend into a crowd." "Is that... a bad thing?" Carl. "Of course it is. Look at you. Monochrome clothes, dull hairstyle, forgettable personality. Simple motivations. An absolutely normal person, fit to blend into the background where you belong." Shuichi's tone wasn't overly mean or arrogant, it was just plain disinterest. "Y-Yeah I am, uh. Pretty awesome at... Blending things." Carl.
12:58 PM
Carl has nothing on him.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 1:05 PM
That caused a twinge a sympathy to sprout in her. Tucker was a lot of things but dull and i memorable? She didn’t exactly agree with that. This Maoziwam was on another level. Tucker’s hate at least acknowledged her as a person. Maoziwam is standing here looking right through her. A disinterested gaze so powerful it makes one want to believe that they really are just an unimportant pebble compared to such a mountain. “Um, I was just on my way out actually.” She says sheepishly, heading towards the elevator.
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Neither of them responded, and allowed her to enter the elevator.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 1:11 PM
How was it that while previously she had been fired up to attack him in some way, all of it had been quelled in an instant. She shuddered, and pressed the button to go down.
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The elevator descended.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 1:14 PM
She got in her car and drove to the library. She wanted to be somewhere quiet that still kept her out of the house for now.
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She is now at the library.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 1:41 PM
she finds a quiet corner and pulls out her phone
1:48 PM
Harriet then decides to approach the librarian. “Do you have any books about the occult? Like ghosts and familiars maybe?”
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The librarian showed her to the horror section.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 1:54 PM
“No I don’t mean like fiction. Okay well yeah it’s fake but, books by people who think this stuff is real.”
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They brought her to THAT section then.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 2:12 PM
She browses the section. What titles stand out to her?
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There is 0 difference between occult books in this universe and occult books in the real world.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 2:16 PM
(( dameda do you just not want me to do this then I feel like this is asking me to write what’s in Jeretto’s diaries))
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((No I just mean. None of it is original to the Advengard world. If you're looking for something specific, information about it would be accurate to real life))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 2:28 PM
((I understood what you meant. But this is just telling me that being here is pointless if there’s no world specific lore for me to discover.))
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((Well it lets your character be informed.... Can't believe there are some people who don't RP out the act of googling stupid shit))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 2:34 PM
((This necessitates me knowing what is contained in any real world books I could find here and believe me I have not read any of them. Idk putting in that kind of effort to find out what’s a similar situation to what Harriet is going through is beyond me at the moment ))
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((I mean. What are you looking for specifically? What topic?))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 2:39 PM
((What situation would cause a bloody ghost you can command to appear))
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All of the closest marching things require Harriet to have conducted an extensive ritual, which she of course has not.
2:42 PM
There is a manga called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure that was placed in the wrong section that’s pretty close though.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 2:44 PM
((YES!)) (edited)
2:47 PM
Harriet is only more confused than before. Is she really the first person to have experienced a phenomenon like this? Is this, JoJo manga somehow based on something in reality? Well, it has awakened her to the idea that she should come up with a name better than Ghost to refer to her friend. “Do you have any ideas? There’s plenty of words in this place you can point to.”
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No reaction.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 2:56 PM
“Fine then. I’ll think of a music based pun myself.” (edited)
2:58 PM
((Atmey I have a terrible idea))
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((What is it))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:11 PM
((It's just a really awful stand name. Do I have your blessing to proceed.))
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((Why wouldn’t you))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:12 PM
((awesome))
3:18 PM
Harriet is not much of a music head. Obviously she's heard a couple of those songs that everyone has to have heard but otherwise it's not really a hobby for her. So when she has to think of something music related for this name, whatever has had popular buzz is what comes to mind. "Ghost? Nothing sounds familiar how about, dead... or phantom? Phantom of the Opera? Does that count? It's an opera though... and I don't think that fits theme at all. You're not a zombie, you're not a vampire... Corpse? You are bloody. Oh there's that movie, The Corpse Bride. No wait, music, this has to be music related." And then she has a realization. Something she saw online starts to take form in her mind from the recesses of her memory. "You're wearing a suit, so not bride. Corpse... Husband? I think that's a music guy. What do you think?"
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The genderless bandage man is now nicknamed Corpse Husband.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:25 PM
"Alright Corpse Husband, lets see if this JoJos is accurate or not. Can you phase through that bookshelf?"
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It can.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:31 PM
"Doesn't seem like you have any special powers beyond the default ability to interact with things though. You sure you can't, make a fire appear or something?"
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Corpse Husband attempts to find a lighter.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:33 PM
"No don't do that!"
3:34 PM
"Just what capabilities do you have, beyond my own? Unrelated to movement."
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No reaction.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:39 PM
Maybe JoJos is a bit fantastical after all. She's getting ready to go home when she remembers that there's another strange phenomenon she'd been feeling the past couple of days. Back to the books she goes, wondering what would cause her to have those urges to take actions that don't seem to be her own.
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The closest match would be something like possession.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:43 PM
"Someone's possessing me... how do I find out who?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 3:59 PM
"I should start keeping track of what circumstances these urges happen under." She thinks. And then decides to leave the library
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Harriet is no longer in the library.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 4:05 PM
"Let's go home" She gets in her car.
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Harriet is now in the car.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 4:10 PM
She drives home.
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Harriet is home.
4:44 PM
((Sorry I missed this somehow))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 4:46 PM
((it's okay))
4:47 PM
"I refuse to go back to that office. Let's figure out how much longer I'll be able to last without an income." She looks at her bank account and does the math on her food needs and rent and so on.
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She’s got less than a week.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 4:54 PM
"Fuck!"
5:00 PM
She doesn't want to work for Leiblinc and almost nowhere else around cares about hiring her. Is she going to be homeless? Can she steal? No she can't steal. Not from the other commonfolk just trying to make a living. It would be nice if she could empty Shuichi Maoziwam's riches into her pockets but that's impossible. How is she going to get her hands on some money?! Her mind flashes back to what Alexei did earlier. Maybe it doesn't need to be her hands... "Fine. This will be the last time I go back to Leiblinc." She thinks. She's going to take Sean Niebel's money.
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It is getting late, for note.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2022 5:08 PM
((Yeah i was going to ask you that lol))
5:09 PM
Alexei will probably laugh at her when she walks back in tomorrow after saying she was done multiple times, but oh well, it can't be helped.
5:09 PM
Harriet does the things she needs to do to get ready for bed and then goes to bed.
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Chapter 2 ends.
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3: Artificial Gravity
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Harriet woke up.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 12:38 PM
((hi sorry im late))
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((hi))
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 12:39 PM
Today was going to be a big day. She hesitated. Was she really going to go through with this? It seemed much easier to just stay in bed all day. Maybe if she just closed her eyes again her problems would disappear.
12:40 PM
This went on for about 10 minutes. She eventually got over her mental block and got ready.
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Corpse Husband is here.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 12:42 PM
She points at them. "I'm stressed about this, you better not leave me out to dry okay? I know you haven't refused to help me so far, so just, keep that going that would be nice." (edited)
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No reaction.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 12:45 PM
"Glad we're in agreement." She finishes getting ready.
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Corpse Husband helps her get ready.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 12:59 PM
That's cute.
12:59 PM
Harriet exits her apartment and heads to her car. (edited)
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This happens.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 1:05 PM
She drives to the office. And waits in the parking lot trying to figure out what her angle was.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 1:21 PM
Was she just going to head straight to Sean’s office? How would she respond to him if he was there? Would it be suspicious if she didn’t appear to show up for work at all? Harriet laid down a basic enough plan for what she was going to do and then walked inside
1:21 PM
Metaphorically
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This happens.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 1:40 PM
She headed into the office where she worked like usual. What’s happening today?
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Everyone seems to be acting normal. Carl and Alexi are both absent.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 2:02 PM
She sits at her desk. “Okay corpse husband, I want you to look up Sean Niebel’s schedule today on Tucker’s computer. When will he be out for a meeting?” (edited)
2:02 PM
“Oh, write it down” She motions to a notepad and pen
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Corpse Husband moved to the computer, and looked around.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 2:14 PM
She crosses her fingers. This better work.
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They returned with paper that said 'Not here'.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 2:24 PM
Dammit. It seems Tucker isn’t scheduled to meet with Niebel today. Time to purposely draw him out. “I want you to send Niebel an email from Tucker’s account. Subject line: Urgent Make it say something like, ‘Hey Boss, I have something really pressing to discuss with you, and it requires you coming down here to my office. It’s hard to explain over words but it has to do with Shuichi Maoziwam’s visit yesterday. Please come as soon as possible.’ Can you do that?”
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Corpse Husband returns with 'Busy right now. Maybe in a few hours. -S. Niebel'
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 2:49 PM
Then a few hours it shall be. “Reply with, ‘That’s okay. Just don’t forget.’ And then delete this exchange from the inbox and sent folders. We don’t need Tucker finding about this when he comes back.” Harriet texts Alexei. “Where are you?”
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No response from Alexi.
2:59 PM
Alexi bursts in through the stairs suddenly, and storms up to Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:05 PM
“Woah what’s going on?”
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"Did you know!?" She firmly grabbed onto the wheelchair's side. "Did you fucking know!?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:08 PM
“Did I know what?! What happened?!”
3:08 PM
“Let go Alexi!”
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"Shuichi Maoziwam!"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:10 PM
“This doesn’t tell me anything! What about him?”
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"So you don't know?" He let go and threw a computer against the floor. "Fine."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:11 PM
“Jesus!”
3:12 PM
“I want you to tell me what happened. And then you need to go home.”
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"That's the plan." They sighed. "Did you know Shuichi Maoziwam bought this place or not?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:20 PM
“Is that why he was here yesterday??”
3:20 PM
“I left before I could find out.”
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"Oh really? Well then, you better quit now."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:38 PM
"I've already 'quit' like 3 times now. But sure I can get the ball rolling on it being formalized if there's some pressing need. What's the problem?"
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"The problem is that you’d be working for Shuichi Maoziwam. Anyone who helps give him a cent deserves to burn in hell."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:40 PM
"What makes him different from Niebel?"
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"That doesn’t matter right now." He dodged the question.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:43 PM
"Alexi if there's something personal here I'm willing to hear you out. But regardless, I definitely for sure intend for today to be my last day working here, so you don't have to worry." "I am curious why me knowing that Maoziwam had bought this place would've caused a reaction so, batshit insane from you."
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"This is the normal energy I bring everywhere I go." She chucked a computer at Levinson. "And I need you for my idea, so there’s that."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 3:46 PM
She rolls her eyes. "Okay the intensity is normal. But why did you act like I'd done something wrong?"
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"Because you have. Just meet me outside later."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 4:01 PM
"...how much later?"
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"Finish whatever your business is. And avoid Carl." They left.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 4:02 PM
Well then. "Did Niebel reply?" she asks Corpse Husband
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1984 gif Choo left.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 4:05 PM
🙂
4:06 PM
((well now idk what to do))
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Carl burst into the office looking deeply confused while flexing a massive smile. "Hey guys! Guess what!?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 4:07 PM
Harriet starts wheeling over to the elevator.
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Carl grabbed the side or her chair. "Nah, you hold up here! I-I'm in charge now, you listen to me!"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 4:10 PM
No. This charade isn't going to continue again today. "Stab his ass with a pen." (edited)
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"I'm the CEO now, guys! I'm a really important person now, you see! You all listen to me, okay!?" He was stabbed with a pen. "Ow- Hey, did you just stab me!? See, guys... This is the problem with feminism! Women never listen to their bosses anymore!" He began pushing Harriet to the stairs again.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 4:33 PM
Of course he'd blame that on her. This has started to get precarious really quickly. "Throw a computer at his head!" she thinks, panicked.
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A computer hit him in the side. "Shut up! I’m a perfectly capable leader! I’ll prove it! She’ll listen to me! You all will! I’ll show her!" You are now at the top of a flight of stairs. People are gathering around to look at this.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 4:46 PM
"You can grab my wheelchair right? Take control away from him. You can take me to the elevator!" Curses. Even with these new found powers she's unable to avoid the same situations as before, tossed every which way according to the whims of the cruel, like a pebble in the wind. Was fighting even worth it, if it ultimately makes no difference.
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Corpse Husband tried to lift up the wheelchair, but failed. Carl tilted the wheelchair forward and Harriet tumbled down a flight of stairs.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:11 PM
((ouch))
5:17 PM
She hits the bottom with a thud. And she stays very still. Harriet is numb. It'd be nice if time could stop, permanently, in this instant. No need for her to be responsible for dealing with what had just happened at all. Because as soon as she starts to acknowledge it, as soon as she starts to stir, to try and formulate some kind of response to what just happened, then the pain becomes very real, on a physical and emotional level. Nothing has gone the way she intended. It's as if the universe itself is conspiring against her claiming any amount of status in this world. And so she continues to lay there, still. As if she hasn't woken up from bed at all today. (edited)
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"Get up! Get back up those stairs? Not so easy now, is it? See, this is what happens when you don’t listen to instructions! I’m the leader here, and you’ll all listen to me!" He sighed heavily. "Please clap."
5:21 PM
They awkwardly clapped.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:23 PM
Unfortunately she could not drown out Tucker's voice or the ensuing applause. The event that just occurred realized itself in her mind, and Harriet cried. Was it sadness? Frustration? Resignation? It was a combination. Harriet awkwardly slouched herself up against the wall, fighting through her aches and pains. Looking up at the others with her own eyes would only hurt more but at this point, she couldn't feel any worse. (edited)
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"Yeah- Yeah! I’m pretty awesome, yeah! I’m literally the CEO!" Carl gave the shittiest applause ever created to himself.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:29 PM
“Wh-what.. happened to Niebel?” she stammers out.
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Carl's forced bravado fell apart. "Oh, he… Uh… Sean's between jobs right now. You could say. Something like that."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:32 PM
“So he’s not in his office right now?”
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"No… Uh… Mr. Maoziwam’s probably there now. Wait, why the hell do you care!? I’m the boss! Respect me! Sean doesn’t matter anymore! Don’t bring him up!"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:36 PM
“If Maoziwam is your replacement boss now I don’t think your status has changed at all.”
5:36 PM
She’s fighting to get each sentence out.
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"I’m the CEO! That- That changes everything! I’m someone important now! You’re a pathetic woman who can’t even get up back here! Don’t question me!"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:39 PM
“If you really were important you wouldn’t have to resort to assaulting your employees to prove your status. People would naturally fall in line.”
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"Then you should fall in line!"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:44 PM
((What is in her vicinity?))
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((Stairs))
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:48 PM
((No vending machines or potted plants or anything? Darn))
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((None, unfortunately))
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 5:50 PM
((Where is Tucker standing))
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((Top of the stairs))
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 6:33 PM
“Throw things at his head. Whatever you can manage. I want him to tumble down the stairs too.” “I don’t plan to fall anywhere again anytime soon. But maybe you could gain some experience.”
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Corpse Husband completely missed his throw.
6:50 PM
"That’s it! Enough! I’m the boss here!" Carl ran away.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 6:56 PM
She hits the ground with her fist, only sending another spike of pain through her body. Of course that wouldn’t have worked.
6:57 PM
She sits there looking up at the crowd of employees. As unlikely as it is that anyone would help her, maybe she can gain one’s attention long enough for them to bring her chair down the stairs at least.
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They all kind of awkwardly try to shuffle out of the room.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:04 PM
Fine then. She waits till they’re gone.
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They are gone.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:06 PM
“You can roll my chair down the stairs slowly yeah?”
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Corpse Husband accidentally drops the chair down the stairs.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:15 PM
“Oh fuck!” She scrambles out of the way best she can
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Harriet is fine, but the chair has a few deep dents.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:18 PM
“You’re useless. I would kill to have the mobility you do and yet you’re so incompetent at everything you do. Why did I get saddled with a ‘stand’ as worthless as you?“ She gets into her chair and leaves to meet Alexi
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The elevator carries Harriet back down to the parking lot.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:22 PM
She looks for Alexi.
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Alexi is smoking a cigarettes near the back of the parking lot.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:24 PM
She approaches him. “You think I could get one?” She motions to the cigarette
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"Sure." He blew his smoke in Harriet's face, before tossing her a cigarette. "Do you have your own lighter?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:31 PM
“No.” (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 7:52 PM
“Can I borrow yours?”
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She flung a lighter at Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 8:16 PM
She reaches to pick it up. “You could’ve just handed it to me”. She lights the cigarette and joins Alexi.
8:16 PM
“Tucker pushed me down the stairs.”
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"Well, good news. If you stick with me, you'll get some semblance of revenge."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 8:25 PM
“Yeah well. I’ve already accepted that I can’t accomplish anything with my own abilities.”
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"You still have Carl's bank info, right?" They smiled. "Well, if he's the CEO, I think we can do much more than buy whatever dumb thing pops into my mind."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 8:38 PM
…..
8:38 PM
“This whole day I’ve been trying to bust into Niebel’s office. I never stopped to consider what Tucker becoming the CEO actually meant.”
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"Full disclosure, if I still had his bank info I'd have left you to die jobhunting."
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2022 8:52 PM
“Full disclosure. You can eat a dick.” She blows smoke in her face. “Now what’s the plan.”
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"I think the first and most immediate act is clear. What is your opinion on embezzlement?" (End session)
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((Session on Friday))
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"What is your opinion on embezzlement?"
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((hi))
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:01 PM
((oh fuck i didnt realize this had started))
1:01 PM
"Depends on the kind of embezzlement."
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"There's types?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:05 PM
"Just tell me the plan."
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"We steal Carl's money. That kind of thing."
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:06 PM
"You already know I'm on board."
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"Well yeah, but it felt more dramatic you know? Gotta keep the chaotic vibe going. It's like my thing."
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:10 PM
"Drama is cool but I could go for more substance."
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"I'll go burn a building down, sheesh. Hell do you want from me?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:12 PM
"Just, are we just going to improv this? I give you Tucker's bank information and you work the magic from there?"
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"Well, I kinda assumed you wouldn't give it without forcing me to make this kinda like an equal team, you know?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:21 PM
"You're right that I don't trust you to not run off with the money. But what leverage do I even have?" (edited)
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"Well you better come up with one fast."
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:37 PM
"Well it's simple. You cut me in, or I go to the cops."
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"I could shoot you."
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 1:39 PM
"You can't shoot me till I've given you the information. Who's to say I don't name you as my killer beforehand."
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"Fair enough."
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 2:10 PM
"Anyway now that you've said this I do need to get my insurance in order. So meet up later?"
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"Alright." Alexi left.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 2:13 PM
Harriet gets in her car. She drives to a pharmacy to buy some pain-killers.\
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Harriet can see Sean’s car leaving the building slightly ahead of hers. If this affects nothing she can purchase pain-killers for the price that those would cost in the real world(I’m not American).
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 2:23 PM
This affects nothing. Harriet has already given up on any plan related to Sean Niebel. She purchases pain-killers for the price that those would cost in the real world.
2:28 PM
She then drives home
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Harriet is home.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 2:32 PM
She sets up her phone to record herself
2:34 PM
And she begins to speak
2:35 PM
((I have some questions. is Avengard located in a specific state))
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((I think I said New York?))
2:35 PM
((Not entirely sure but let’s go with that))
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 2:40 PM
((do i know anything about Alexi's previous place of work? what even is their job at Leiblinc))
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((He’s also an accountant. You don’t know what she did before though. You can look it up if you want))
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 2:51 PM
"My name is Harriet Ulysses Kadin. I live at [Street Address], Avengard, New York, [Zip Code]. This is my confession. If you're watching this tape, I'm probably dead– murdered by my coworker, Alexi Braun. Alexi has been embezzling money from Leiblinc for a while now, and using me as his informant. Shortly after Shuichi Maoziwam's purchase of Leiblinc, she asked that I use my disability status to find out Carl Tucker's bank information, which they would then launder using connections that xe made through his career as an accountant. I was... astounded. I... I always thought Alexi was a very moral person, and I was particularly vulnerable at the time – something she knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a hate-crime motivated resignation that was poised to bankrupt me. Alexi told me about their embezzlement plan and showed me just how much money even a small dent in Tucker's pockets was worth. And I was weak. I didn't want to go into financial ruin, so I agreed. I have often contemplated suicide, but I'm a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. To keep me in line, xe put a gun to my head. For as long as possible, he kept that threat alive. My family and other acquaintances have no idea of my criminal activities, and would be horrified to learn what I've done. I was in hell. I hated myself for what I had brought upon myself. Recently, I tried once again to quit, and in response, she gave me this. [Harriet points to the bruise on her face left by Tucker when she was pushed down the stairs.] I can't take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Alexi will kill me. All I could think to do was to make this video and hope that the world will finally see this person for what they really are."
(edited)
2:53 PM
Was implicating herself in that necessary? Probably not. But like Alexi said, drama is fun. And in the event he did actually decide to kill her, well she wouldn't be alive to face the consequences of this herself. Might as well go the whole way in having this blow up on Alexi.
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This has been recorded yup.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 3:21 PM
She uploads the video to twitter and schedules it to post in a week with the hashtags #Leiblinc #SeanNiebel #CarlTucker #ShuichiMaoziwam. She can remove it before then if things go fine.
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The middle 2 have never once been used as hashtags but sure.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 3:28 PM
((Then what should I use!!))
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((There is no appropriate hashtag no one talks about these people))
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 3:36 PM
She also decides to add a tag for @NotSoElusiveSentasaurus to the draft. They seem to have a larger following.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 4:44 PM
She text Alexi, "So when is this going down?"
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"idk‼️"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 4:47 PM
Harriet looks for the paper with Tucker's bank info on it. "Well its all good on my end" she texts back
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"cool"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 4:57 PM
"So... are you willing to meet up again today?"
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"gonna test this first"
4:59 PM
"can you do same day shipping to send belto shelk merchandise to (address)"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 5:01 PM
"you want me to order belto shelk merchandise using tucker's money?"
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"yeah"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 5:02 PM
"fine"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 5:09 PM
She pulls up belto shelk merchandise on amazon to price check it.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 5:14 PM
Figuring out how to surreptitiously direct Tucker's money into her account will be Alexi's job. For now, Harriet purchases the mug with her own money and chooses same-day shipping to Alexi's address at checkout.
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The mug has been ordered.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 5:47 PM
"ordered. let me know when you get it" she texts Alexi
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2022 5:56 PM
She checks twitter. Just to make sure she didn't actually tweet the video yet.
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((Friday))
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She did not in fact tweet the video yet.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 11:37 AM
((What do you expect me to accomplish before Alexi texts back))
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((FAIR enough))
11:41 AM
Alexi responded with 'ok he got it'.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 11:41 AM
“He?”
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'dw about it'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 11:41 AM
“What did you just make me do?”
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'lol. lmao, even'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 11:46 AM
Well it’s just a Belto Shelk mug. Can’t be that bad.
11:46 AM
“Whatever, when are we doing this?” She texts Alexi
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'doing what'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 11:58 AM
“When are we embezzling cash from Tucker for my benefit”
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'thanks for writing that out that’s really going to help win our eventual legal battle on this topic I think'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:07 PM
“you asked! And I can’t buy another phone without money”
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'going to amass so much blackmail on this phone so that when the cops see this they’re going to be impressed with how terrible we are keeping secrets'
12:14 PM
‘harriet(you(the person I am texting) killed a man in 2005'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:16 PM
“Alexi (you(the person I am texting) is an annoying asshole”
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'aw thx'
12:19 PM
'you missed a ) btw'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:20 PM
“I was just copying you!”
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'bad idea'
12:24 PM
'im me. no one else is me'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:25 PM
“I can just figure this all out on my own you know”
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‘i bought an apartment for this. real hidden place to store things. i dont want to say it through text'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:36 PM
“You don’t need to… that’s why I’ve been trying to organize another time to meet up”
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'ok where do you want to meet'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:43 PM
“Anywhere but Leiblinc”
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'ok let’s meet at leiblinc'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:46 PM
“Are you serious”
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'am i ever'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 12:58 PM
“Let’s go to the park”
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'sure'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 1:02 PM
“Be there in 15?”
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'yeah'
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 1:07 PM
Harriet takes some painkillers and gets ready to leave. She wears sunglasses because that’s what everyone exchanging sensitive information in public places wears in the spy movies.
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This happens. I assume you don’t have anything to do before she gets to the park itself?
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:28 PM
I don't, no.
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Harriet arrived at the park.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:33 PM
She pulls up near a bench.
2:33 PM
And waits for Alexi.
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Alexi sat on the bench. He is wearing one of these things:
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:35 PM
"Dude that just makes you stand out more."
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"And yet I think more people will gawk at your chair, because humans are evil." She smirked, before taking it off. "Anyway."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:37 PM
She had a point. Harriet sighed.
2:38 PM
"Alright you bought an apartment? why?"
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"Half because my old one is tiny, and half because I want a place to do this stuff that isn’t on Leiblinc files. Embezzlement is easy enough, but you need a cover for where the money's coming in from when the IRS comes knocking on your door. So, I figure we hide the money there until we figure out a good excuse we’re raking in cash despite being jobless."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:43 PM
"Okay I understand the purpose there but I feel like there's a big step at the beginning that we've skipped. A mug is a small purchase but won't Tucker catch on once the amount we take out is larger? Surely his bank will report the location from where is account was accessed to him."
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"VPNs are a thing, right? Anyway, we can probably use Carl's status to access more general company finances."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:47 PM
"Accessing general company finances is the next move yeah. Tucker will just deactivate this account or change its log-in information when he catches on, and as much of an oaf as he is, he will realize soon enough." (edited)
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"Could take a bit. Anyway, the place I picked is pretty big. There’s 3 different bedrooms in there, and I’m only half a person. So if I you wanna live the highlife, I can get you a key too."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:54 PM
An apartment with Alexi? Didn't he threaten to kill her earlier today? Well... if they're offering it can't hurt to just have a key Still.. "How did you afford it?"
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"Thats like my whole mysterious backstory, you know? Gotta raise your affinity with me before I infodump." They seem greatly amused by this.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 2:57 PM
There's never an easy answer with this one. "I accept your offer for a key. It's only fair that I have access to our money. I'm not moving in with you just like that though. No honor among thieves and all that. Plus, I still have Benny to take care of."
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"Sounds good. I’ll just leave your guest room untouched when I uh… What’s a good activity that’d make you grossed out by a bed? Like a funny thing to say? I’m having a brainfart here."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:02 PM
Harriet didn't even have to offer a suggestion to react to the joke with "Gross." "What's the address of the place?" (edited)
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"You’re not even saying what the joke is, this is really unsatisfying of a punchline. I’ll be sure to stop collecting material from someone who’s no fun."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:05 PM
"You've been collecting material from me previously?"
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"In this specific instance, yes."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:07 PM
"Well I'm sorry for not wanting to complete this joke specifically. I'll do better in the future."
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"Thank you."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:08 PM
"Anyway... Address?"
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She gave the address, then put on the funny glasses. "That’ll be all." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:10 PM
((How far away is this place from Harriet's place. Relative to how far away the office is I guess.)) (edited)
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((Distances in Advehnt Guard would NEVER be inconsistent cereal1))
3:38 PM
((It's further away than the office))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:39 PM
((but is it closer to the office than my place is to it))
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((No))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:40 PM
"Bit of an out there location don't you think? Well that was probably necessary for a good deal on a place this big. Thank you Alexi."
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"See ya." He left.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:41 PM
((what time is it?))
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It's the evening.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:43 PM
((what features does this park have. is there a pond somewhere))
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((There's a pond yeah))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 3:47 PM
Harriet decides to wander over to the pond and gaze at it. A lot had happened today. It's true she did intend to rob Sean Niebel earlier this morning but, the escalation from that to a more robust criminal operation in league with Alexi had occurred almost too quickly to process.
3:49 PM
She had started off today trying to claim some agency for herself, so it's an ironic twist of fate that she'd find herself now as a mostly passive accomplice to Alexi's scheming. Hell was any of this her idea at all? She wouldn't even be part of it if not for luckily getting her hands on Tucker's bank information earlier this week. And that too, was Alexi's idea.
3:52 PM
That's not to say she disagrees with it on a moral level. She's getting what she deserves. But this would sit a lot easier on her mind if she'd escalated things to this level on her own. That baseline of resignation... if she can't escape it even when trying to fight back, what does that even say about her life. Her own mind is an obstacle.
3:53 PM
She continued to gaze off at the still water. And then decided to go for a drive. Might as well check out what kind of fancy place Alexi has gotten their hands on.
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Apartment complex? Actually, it's quite simple.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 4:19 PM
Thank you.
4:26 PM
((Am I going to get anything more? Have I arrived?))
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((Timing issue))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 4:27 PM
((oh))
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((Shouldn't take too long))
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Harriet came across Hav Kerloe on the way to the apartment.
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-and-hav
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Could you please describe Harriet Kadin's current appearance.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:14 PM
Harriet Kadin looks the way she does in my server icon. Additionally, she has some bruises on various parts of her body and her wheelchair is pretty dented.
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I take note of the fact that there is a Harriet Kadin in front of me. [inner monologue, don't read until after the session is over] Is that a person in a wheelchair? Very curious. Being unable to walk must be hard. What if there was a fish that couldn't swim? It's like that, isn't it? Additionally, she has some bruises on various parts of her body, and her wheelchair is pretty dented. Has she been in some sort of accident? Someone who can't walk is, in truth, no different from any other person. Due to human invention, we take someone with a unique attribute such as the inability to walk, and place them in the same position as anyone else. A wheelchair allows you to move just as anyone else would. Your differences are diminished, and we continue to uphold the status quo. I think of the bag in my hands. A cell phone, among the fish. Is it really any different? Yes, the fish were alive, but they aren't anymore. The cell phone is comparable to a person in a wheelchair, being modified to become on the same level as a fish. It makes total sense. A phone is alive in the same way a fish is from the perspective of a human. They both can do things on their own, but ultimately have no effect on our lives. The fact that fish have some sort of "free will" while a phone does not is irrelevant, as they are both so far beneath us that the distinction stops mattering. Now is a good a time as any. Perhaps if this wheelchaired person sees this perfect metaphor, it will show her a path towards understanding. I take the trash bag that is in my hands, open it, and pour the contents of it (many dead fish and a single cell phone) onto the sidewalk without saying a word. I then continue walking with the empty trash bag still in my hands.
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((Holy shit lmao))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:28 PM
((What))
5:29 PM
What a strange man.
5:29 PM
“Sir you dropped your cellphone. At least, I think it’s yours.”
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I do not respond to this and continue walking.
5:31 PM
((I am heading in the opposite direction from Harriet Kadin, right?))
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((You are both heading in the same direction))
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In that case I do respond because this is an unavoidable confrontation. "It's not mine. You can have it if you want."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:33 PM
She doesn’t want that garbage. “Do you live around here?” It might do some good to get a sense of the locals.
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"Yes."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:34 PM
“Oh that’s great. Can you tell me what kind of community this place has?”
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[inner monologue, don't read until after the session is over] "What kind of community this place has"? Does she mean Avengard, the city we are in right now? It's hard to say there's a single community in such a large city. This is an incomprehensible question, and I should answer it in the most straightforward way possible to satisfy her as efficiently as I can. "It's fine."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:37 PM
That wasn’t very helpful.
5:38 PM
Harriet looked around at the general state of the neighborhood. How does it look?
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Looks fairly rich.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:43 PM
Just how did Alexi afford a place like this. “Well anyway, do you usually dump garbage on the sidewalk like this? People need to use them. And some of them don’t have the benefit of jumping over the trash you leave behind…”
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[inner monologue, don't read until after the session is over] Garbage? It seems she has completely misunderstood. However, explaining this seems pointless. You either understand or you don't. "It isn't garbage."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:50 PM
“Whatever it is, don’t just dump it on the sidewalk.”
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I nod.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 5:53 PM
((Do I have the key with me already?))
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((No))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:03 PM
Harriet decides to head over to Alexi's apartment.
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((Channel split))
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-kadin
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:06 PM
She gave the door a knock.
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No response.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:09 PM
Well that's too bad. She decides to do a little more recon on the area before heading back home. She looks for a Denny's and/or a Waffle House. If she's going to be staying overnight on occasion it would be nice to have breakfast food nearby.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:12 PM
17.
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There are restaurants like that around yeah. Additional discovery, there is a pet store nearby called Braun Fishery. This is Alexi's last name. Just a notable coincidence
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:13 PM
Could this be the connection that got them such a fancy apartment? Harriet decides to visit Braun Fishery, if it hasn't closed for the night yet.
6:14 PM
((wrong channel))
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It’s a pet store. Despite the massive fish theme, fish only take up a small part of the store.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:18 PM
Is anyone around?
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There are people in the store yes.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:19 PM
How about a manager?
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You could ask the cashier to get them.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:25 PM
She approaches the cashier. "Hi!"
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"Hello." They respond with the word hello.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:27 PM
She looks at the cashier's name tag. "Why is this place called Braun Fishery?"
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"It used to be a fishery belonging to the Braun family. Is that all?" They respond with the words I wrote out.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:28 PM
((what are you doing))
6:29 PM
"So its not owned by a Braun anymore?""
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"It’s owned by the Maoziwam corporation."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:30 PM
Wait a minute.... Is this reason behind Alexi's seemingly personal grudge against Shuichi Maoziwam? Harriet felt like she'd had a major breakthrough in understanding Alexi, who would've never shared something as personal as this.
6:31 PM
"Oh is that so.. why does Maoziwam have an interest in a simple pet store like this?"
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"How should I know? It’s not like this place is the only store he’s bought."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:35 PM
"Did you work here before he bought the place?"
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"No."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:37 PM
"You know anyone who did?"
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"No."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:40 PM
"Do you think I can talk to your manager then?"
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"Yeah, they’re in the back."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:47 PM
She goes to the back.
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"Can I help you?" The manager.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:49 PM
"How long have you been working here?"
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"Few years."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 6:56 PM
"Before Maoziwam bought the place?"
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"That would’ve been a good few decades ago."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 7:00 PM
((How old is Alexi))
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((Unknown, but not young))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 7:03 PM
((so their age could line up with the good few decades ago braun fishery purchase?))
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((Theoretically))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 7:06 PM
That might line up with Alexi's age. Or maybe his anger is on behalf of an older relative. "So you don't know anyone who worked here before the purchase then?"
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"It was a small family. I don’t know them personally, but I do know their names."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 7:12 PM
"Oh, could you let me know?"
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They wrote out 4 different names on a list.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 7:28 PM
She reads the names.
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None of them are familiar, all have the last name Braun.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 7:46 PM
((can i not know what they are))
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((Why do I have to name these….))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 7:57 PM
((because thats your job!))
7:57 PM
((so stingy with world lore tsk tsk))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 8:17 PM
((atmey please))
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According to randomwordgenerator.com their names are Sherri, Lloyd, Kimberly, and Gil.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 9:17 PM
Hmmm. Yeah she really does not recognize these names. Harriet wonders if Alexi would take kindly to her asking them about it though. Regardless, she's satisfied with what she's uncovered and heads back home.
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Harriet arrived back home.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 9:26 PM
She takes care of Benny. Then checks the time.
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It's late in the evening.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 9:27 PM
((i want to know how long till midnight so i can read sent's tweets))
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2 hours.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2022 9:28 PM
She doesn't have work tomorrow. And today was a lot. She unwinds by watching a 2 hour long movie.
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After the movie, it becomes midnight, ending the chapter/session.
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4: Almighty Grasp
12:08 PM
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The movie finishes.
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:02 PM
It was alright. She didn’t pay complete attention anyway she spent time on her phone. She’s still looking at it actually. She gets a twitter notification.
12:05 PM
Who’s Shawn? She scrolls through the rest of tweets trying to make sense of this decision.
12:07 PM
She finds Shawn. I mean he’s a complete stranger but might as well ask what he knows about the person she’s trusted to boost her confession.
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:04 PM
@Schilalyi no longer with this channel?? Then which channel will you be uploading on
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:08 PM
@Not Shawn Duveldt are you a YouTuber too
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Shawn Duveldt 8/5/2022 12:13 PM
Nah, just a fan
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Shawn Duveldt
Nah, just a fan
Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:16 PM
A fan of the sentasaurus?
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Shawn Duveldt 8/5/2022 12:17 PM
of him & Team 9, yeah
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:18 PM
How big is their following
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Shawn Duveldt 8/5/2022 12:20 PM
Not super sure, you should check his subscriber count
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:21 PM
What’s the channel name
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Shawn Duveldt 8/5/2022 12:21 PM
The Elusive Sentasaurus
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:26 PM
Seems like it’s a small channel. Do you know any other larger YouTubers? Like ones you’ve talked to, not Alpharad
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:22 PM
She looks up ‘The Elusive Sentasaurus’ on YouTube.
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He has like a few hundred subscribers.
12:23 PM
Not many uploads.
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:23 PM
What are the uploads?
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It's a guy running around in a dinosaur costume doing various things. Not really anything that seems interesting.
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:25 PM
Dammit. She needs to find a better connection.
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 1:34 PM
Well this should never be important anyway. Harriet goes to bed.
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Bob Smith
@Not Shawn Duveldt I would be glad to, I have things to talk about relating to my changing life and my plans going forward. I'm out of the hospital though, but I can reach out to you if you tell me where to meet you. Bob "The Elusive Sentasaurus" Smith
Harriet Kadin 8/5/2022 12:06 PM
Hospital? What happened
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@Schilalyi no longer with this channel?? Then which channel will you be uploading on
@song an interview with a man named shawn duvelt will explain everything please be there. Bob "The Elusive Sentasaurus" Smith
8:31 PM
@song SHUT UP! I'm okay. Bob "The Elusive Sentasaurus: Smith
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Harriet wakes up in the morning.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 11:44 AM
She checks her phone.
11:46 AM
“Please be there?” What is this guy talking about? Well it can’t hurt to ask for details anyway.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 11:46 AM
@Schilalyi you want me to attend your interview?
11:46 AM
Well if you want, you can dm me the meeting details.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 11:56 AM
Then she texts Alexi “so when am I getting that key?”
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Alexi: u can come here now ig
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 12:06 PM
She gets ready to leave
12:09 PM
She leaves for the apartment complex.
12:09 PM
((Can I have a name for this apartment complex))
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((Name?))
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 12:12 PM
((Yes))
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((I don’t know what that means))
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 12:13 PM
((Locations have names ,))
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((Apartments too?))
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 12:15 PM
((Do you think every apartment complex is just called an apartment complex. Neighborhoods have names))
12:15 PM
Chapter 1: Apartment Names Ideas and Suggestions. Chapter 2: How to Name Your Apartment. Chapter 3: Residential Project Name Ideas.
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((I feel stupid but this website just confused me more))
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 1:28 PM
((Okay do you want ME to make it up))
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((Sure ig))
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She leaves for the apartment complex.
Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 1:32 PM
She leaves for Green Glen Homes, the Apartment Complex that Alexi had mentioned.
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Hav Kerloe and a man who looks similar to him exit the apartment complex as Harriet approaches it.
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[inner monologue, don't read until after the session is over] A thought comes to me as I see who is approaching, but I quickly shove it down. I need to get to work, no distractions. It's just a normal day. My life is perfectly normal.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 1:44 PM
She recognizes him. “You live here specifically?”
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[inner monologue, don't read until after the session is over] A simple question. Shouldn't be difficult to answer it honestly. "Yes." (edited)
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"A friend of yours, Hav?"
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"No, not really."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 1:45 PM
((I finally read the monologues from the previous session holy shit))
1:46 PM
“We’re not friends I just bumped into him yesterday night.”
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"I figured. He's not very sociable." He made an uncomfortable smile.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 1:48 PM
“Are you his friend then?”
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"We're brothers."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 1:55 PM
“Oh that explains the similarity.”
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I keep my head down and wait standing there. I don't say anything. (edited)
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"Have a good day." Ethfan walked past Harriet.
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"...Yeah."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:05 PM
She nods.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:31 PM
She heads to Alexi’s apartment and knocks on the door
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"Who's there?" An unfamiliar woman's voice.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:36 PM
“I’m a friend of Alexi.”
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"Let her in." Alexi.
2:38 PM
An unfamiliar woman opened the door into a large but mostly empty apartment.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:40 PM
"Hello. Are you Alexi's family?"
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"No." Alexi spoke before the woman could. "Her name is Sarah Stanley, and she's good with computers. Sarah, this is Harriet, she's a loser who can't walk. Introductions over? Good."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:42 PM
((STANLEY))
2:42 PM
"My loser status is unrelated to my inability to walk for the record."
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"That's true. Now, could you please hurry out of here Sarah? I have a new visitor." Alexi. "Can't handle 2 people at once?" Sarah.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:48 PM
"It's nothing personal. We just have a private matter to discuss."
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"I know you're embezzling from Carl Tucker. That's not why she's kicking me out." Sarah grabbed a few of her things and went to the door.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:52 PM
"Wait hold on, why are you telling people about this??"
2:52 PM
"Sarah don't leave just yet." (edited)
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"Because I need her to hack into Leiblinc proper. I'm glad we're all yelling as loudly as possible, discretion is really what we're best at." Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:55 PM
"Then, shouldn't she stay?"
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"No, she shouldn't." Alexi sighed deeply. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 2:57 PM
((Alexi is sighed deeply.))
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"It's fine. He just doesn't want us talking." Sarah.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 3:01 PM
"Why not?"
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"Because it makes it harder for them to pretend to not care about us. I don't know what their problem is, they just hate to have friends." Sarah. Alexi shut the door on Sarah, leaving only Harriet and him in the room. "Just ignore her. Hire 1 person too many times and they start deluding themselves into thinking you care." She sat in front of a computer.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 3:06 PM
Harriet lingers looking at the door for a bit. "Bye Sarah" she calls out, hoping she hasn't left just yet. "So what are you doing on the computer now?"
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"I'm stealing money, theoretically. But now we have a real problem, which is why I need you."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 3:08 PM
"Well, I'm here."
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"You know how our sole connection to Leiblinc is Carl Tucker, narcissist extraordinaire?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 3:10 PM
"How could I forget?"
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"Apparently he's not so high and mighty right now. Guess it's easier to pretend to be the boss when he's got you to throw down staircases. He's going to quit, at which point we're basically dead."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 3:24 PM
“Wait why would he quit?”
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"I have no idea. But right now, his ego's like a deflated balloon, so… If you don’t fill it up with hot air, this whole gameplan is going to fall apart."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 3:26 PM
“You can’t be serious.”
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"Honestly, I figured this would happen sooner rather than later. The guy is operating on the most paper thin delusion I’ve ever seen, which is saying something. But I was hoping to have more time to make you get in deeper on the whole embezzlement train, and now I have to hope you actually do this off way less a backing. This guy’s the worst."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 4:34 PM
“So what you expect me to just waltz back in and make Shuichi Maoziwam money?”
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"No. I expect you to convince Carl to keep the job. Pump up his ego, fill his usual bullshit back up."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 4:39 PM
“Why do you think I’d be able to do that?”
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"Because you were the one who pumped his ego that high in the first place. If you do it, it’ll have a much stronger impact than if anyone else did. Plus, the guy clearly has a thing for you. Whether it’s because you’re a woman or you’re disabled, that’s your choice for what to tap into."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 4:44 PM
She grimaces.
4:45 PM
She can’t argue with them. Alexi is right, because of factors out of her control she is the one most suited to gas Tucker up again.
4:45 PM
“Fine. I’ll do it.”
4:46 PM
“I came here this morning for my key though, I’ll leave when I have it.”
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She tossed Harriet a key.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 4:48 PM
Harriet tries to catch it. She misses but Corpse Husband grabs it instead. “I don’t need your help.” She snatches it away and shoves it in her purse.
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You don’t get to ASSUME what corpse husband does smh. Yes it does do that though. After hearing that it is unneeded, it vanishes.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 4:52 PM
((I did not know how to naturally signal that I wanted her unconscious thought to transfer to instructing them like that. Sorry.))
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((It’s fine))
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 5:21 PM
She leaves the apartment ready to go to Leiblinc once again. Every day she swears not to set foot there and every day this is disproven.
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Harriet arrived at Leiblinc.
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Harriet arrived at Leiblinc.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 5:38 PM
She enters and heads to Tucker’s office. Or at least the place where his office was yesterday.
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This office is now occupied by Levinson. "Sup. Did you know I’m not mute?" This is his only reaction to Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 5:40 PM
“I never thought you were. Where’s Tucker?”
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"CEO office. Top floor."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 5:42 PM
That makes sense. “I should’ve known but I had to check anyway.” She goes to the elevator and presses the up button.
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Harriet arrived at the CEO floor.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 5:45 PM
What does it look like? (edited)
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It has more of Sean's flair than Carl's. The place is surprisingly dull. There’s a large set of double doors labelled CEO’s Office.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 6:17 PM
She approaches it and knocks on the double doors.
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"Come in." Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 6:21 PM
She enters. “Hey…. Boss”
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"The boss isn’t here. He got fired remember?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 6:34 PM
“I’m talking about you.”
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"Hm? Oh- Oh yeah, I am a pretty amazing boss, yeah." It sounds more forced than usual.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 6:51 PM
“Why are you doubting yourself?” She says robotically
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"Doubting myself? Whaaaaaat!?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 7:06 PM
“Okay you know what I can’t do this. Tucker why are you planning to quit?!”
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He makes an incoherent series of noises in surprise.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 7:08 PM
“Oh quit the drama. You’re literally the CEO. What kind of moron decides to give up now?”
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"Well- Suppose, just suppose for some brief moment I would do this… in this hypothetical, Maoziwam's gonna fire me anyway. All hypotheticals obviously. Nailed it."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 7:12 PM
“He’s going to fire you??”
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"Hypothetically! You just don’t get this is hypothetical, because you’re… You know, you. You probably got fired 3 times today alone. I’m so pathetic, no one would ever fire me. Great. I am *great^."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 7:15 PM
"Alright, I'll play along. 'Hypothetically', why would he fire you?"
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"Well, in this hypothetical I would've gotten incredibly drunk during work hours, spent the entire time being pursued by a prosti- No, she was that therapist thing. Whatever the case, in this hypothetical I'm an alcoholic and platonic adulterer. Which is how you can tell how far from reality this is, right?" Incredibly awkward laugh. "And like, also... In this hypothetical, I don't do any of my obviously incredible things to make up for that. Because you know, obviously no one would fire me no matter how badly I messed up in the real world."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 7:22 PM
"And hypothetically, how would you be able to get out of this?"
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He leaned back in his charge, exasperated. "By quitting, obviously. I mean, my whole life has been nothing but trying to earn the respect to get up here, and... Now what? I've got nowhere higher to go. I don't really know any of my subordinates. I just know they have to respect me because of my position. Harriet Kadin, my classic punching bag, just strolled in and I confessed all of this because I don't know anyone more than her. I mean- What am I doing? I'm the boss, and still the only thing I know is... How to keep begging for more respect. Thought I'd feel confident when I got here and earned everything... But really, I've just lost everything." He straightened up in his chair and smiled. "Obviously that's all a hypothetical built around a completely different person who happens to share my name and life experiences though. Can you like...?" He moved his fingers to the sides of his mouth, and moved them up to represent smiling. "You're kinda dragging down the fun mood in here, I almost feel insecure for the first time in my life." He laughed way too forcefully.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 7:43 PM
"Tucker, you need a secretary. Someone you can boss around all day. And you can always go downstairs to flex rank every so often. Don't give up what you've earned just like that." "Oh right." She smiles, a bit forcefully, but also with some satisfaction over just how small this miserable man seems right now.
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"Good non-hypothetical idea!" He hit his hand against the desk enthusiastically. "You should be my secretary! I mean, you're like an expert at making me feel superior, right?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 7:54 PM
"I don't think I've done that intentionally at all."
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"You know, Albert Einstein probably once said that geniuses don't even try to be the smartest."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 8:32 PM
"What reasoning goes in that head of yours to make you think I'd accept a job like this??"
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"The reasoning of Albert Einstein, I just told you."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 8:36 PM
"Tucker you threw me down the stairs yesterday."
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"Allegedly. No wait you were there. True wisdom is in moving on."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 8:38 PM
"I'm not going to be your secretary."
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"Really showing your unwisdoming here. But... Fair's fair. I'll get a new one. You know the girl in the wheelchair from accounting? She available? For a job." In case you somehow misunderstand and think there is actually a second girl in a wheelchair in the accounting department, there isn't.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 8:43 PM
"I don't think she would agree to be your secretary just like that no."
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"Really?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 8:46 PM
"Your subordinates respect you, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'd be willing to spend more time with you for seemingly no reason."
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"So... Does that clear my wife off the list too?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 9:10 PM
"I'd hope your wife cares more about you."
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"It's the problem with modern day feminism, you know? Obviously, I support women being equal. But letting them be superior...?" He made a disgusted face. "If I'm not allowed to hate my marriage, why is she? It's oppression is what it is. I'm glad you're sane, because if I said this to the woke mob they'd tear a good-natured and feminist man like me to shreds."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 9:16 PM
She rolls her eyes. "Look I was trying to be subtle about it but, if you want someone to be your secretary, you need to actually make the position worth it, whether it be salary or other perks. I don't know why you need me to explain employment 101."
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"Perks are... You get to talk to me. And salary is implied, accounting can work it out."
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:05 PM
"You really think that's enough?"
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"…Yeah?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:05 PM
"Well good luck on your search then." She begins to leave.
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"Harriet!" He called out.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:09 PM
She stops. "Yeah?"
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"I just wanted to say, for all the help of reminding me how great and awesome I am, and how to keep reminding myself… Than- I mean, do you want to be my secretary? Just like, double-checking…"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:17 PM
"Are you going to quit if I don't agree?"
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He thought about it. "…Would you say yes if I did?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:24 PM
"I want a 40% salary increase, dental included in my health insurance, 3 weeks PTO, a 401k, and compensation for the new wheelchair I still need to buy."
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He thought about it dramatically. "401 thousand dollars? Why not just wait to get it with your salary?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:29 PM
"That's not what that means... Look I can draft my own employment contract since you don't seem to understand. Just sign off on it and send it to accounting?"
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"Yeah, sounds good. We live in increasingly progressive times… Who ever said women can’t write contracts?" He smirked.
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:38 PM
“Where do you want me to work?”
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"In the… building?"
10:40 PM
((I was expecting you to have left the office before now so I could’ve ended the session. We are nearly at 12 hours, I’m cutting it here. End of session))
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:42 PM
((Sorry for being so slow))
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((No problem I just didn’t expect you to somehow get yourself rehired))
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Harriet Kadin 8/12/2022 10:52 PM
((It’s what Alexi would’ve wanted))
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Harriet Kadin 8/13/2022 8:11 AM
((Which icon is ethfan))
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(( ))
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Harriet Kadin 8/13/2022 8:13 AM
((He does not look like Hav Kerloe))
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((Hav is a stock image what did you expect me to do))
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Harriet Kadin 8/13/2022 8:14 AM
((Modify the stock image))
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"In the… building?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:03 PM
“I meant where would my desk be. I’m not going back to the [second floor that’s where I used to be right?] if im going to be your secretary”
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"No, yeah, yeah... Good point. You can uh... Where do you want to work?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:10 PM
“We could set up a little divider and a desk in the lobby outside?
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"No, I said inside the building. That's why I'm the boss, and you're the account."
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:15 PM
“Outside your office. That lobby.” She points.
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He thinks it over. "Oh, yeah, okay."
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:17 PM
“Do you know who to call to make that happen?”
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"What- There's someone to call?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:19 PM
“I assume you won’t be lugging a desk up here on your own… and I certainly can’t. Come on you’re the boss! You can make people do things!”
8:21 PM
((I’m going to assume this company has a storage warehouse)) “I bet the guys at the warehouse know how to help.”
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"Oh. Yeah, yeah, I'll call them up. I knew that, obviously."
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:23 PM
“Thanks Boss. I’ll be back with my contract tomorrow.”
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"Sounds great, yeah." He sat back in his seat. "I make a pretty great boss."
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:25 PM
She leaves the office and shoots Alexi a text: “Good news. Tucker won’t quit. Better news. I basically run this company now.”
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AB: what
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:29 PM
((I could follow up on that but I don’t want to so we can officially end the session now if you’re okay w that))
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((Most important session ever))
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Harriet Kadin 8/14/2022 8:31 PM
((It felt narratively unsatisfying 😭))
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((Friday))
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Harriet Kadin 8/18/2022 10:29 PM
((Make designs for the Braun Fishery cashier and manager))
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((why))
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Harriet Kadin 8/18/2022 10:34 PM
((Because I asked))
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((what if I don't want to))
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Harriet Kadin 8/18/2022 10:37 PM
((I’ll make them myself))
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AB: what
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 12:53 PM
HK: I’m officially his new secretary. You didn’t want him to quit so this is what I came up with to make him feel like he has power. But it gives me ample opportunity to control things from behind the scenes. He’s not very smart.
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AB: also means youll be the first suspect for embezzlement
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 12:58 PM
HK: I don’t see you volunteering! Harriet is pissed. Alexi sits on his high horse and just tells her everything she’s doing wrong without once respecting how much he needs her. Does he think she wanted this? No, but she’s turning the situation around to make something of it. She has the power how is that not something to be happy about?
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AB: why would I volunteer
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 1:01 PM
HK: What’s done is done. I’ll see you later.
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AB: k bye
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 1:20 PM
Harriet goes home. She has work to do.
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Harriet arrived home.
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 1:34 PM
She opens up her computer, find the employee contract template her workplace uses, which she has access to because she worked in accounting, and starts drafting the contract with the stipulations she made earlier today. Money trouble will be a thing of the past even if this embezzlement scheme doesn’t pan out.
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((Roll for contract quality))
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 1:58 PM
18.
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The contract is completed.
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 2:08 PM
She emails it to Tucker. Hopefully he’s satisfied with it.
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No response yet.
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 2:46 PM
((What should I do))
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((idk ‼️))
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 2:53 PM
((Fun))
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((Clearly Harriet needs a hobby))
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 2:59 PM
((WHAT IF SHE WENT FISHING))
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((She could))
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Sean Niebel 8/19/2022 10:06 PM
((great session today))
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2022 10:08 PM
((things will be better next week after im moved in to college))
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((Friday))
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Harriet is in her room.
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 11:47 AM
Harriet is restless.
11:48 AM
She keeps refreshing her e-mail, twiddling her thumbs, tapping her foot. Tucker taking so long isn't helpful right now. All that this time allows is for her to second-guess herself. Was this the right decision? Alexei's reaction only contributes to the self-doubt. (edited)
11:49 AM
Of course there are the issues with being a prime suspect. But that's not the root of her insecurity is it?
11:50 AM
Despite just about everything that has happened, today she walked into Tucker's office and argued her way into the position that he has the most personal control over. How does that make sense?
11:50 AM
"I need to get out of here." She thinks
11:51 AM
Harriet gets ready and leaves for [the park that she met with Alexei at previously].
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Avengard Public Park looks peaceful today. There aren’t as many people as there tend to be, but it’s a beautiful Thursday in Avengard.
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 12:21 PM
((It’s canonically Thursday??))
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((It’s chapter 4. Chapters are 24 hour periods. In chapter 1 I said it was a Monday))
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 12:22 PM
She finds a nice little spot in the shade and decides to people watch.
12:22 PM
Being here helps keep her mind off things.
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((Roll))
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There’s a man smoking a cigarette. There’s a homeless man wandering around. Sarah is also making her way through the park.
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 12:51 PM
Sarah?? What is she doing here. Harriet isn’t sure how to approach her. A weak “Hi there. It’s me. Yeah” comes out. Hopefully she hears.
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Is she actually moving towards her or just. Saying it from afar
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 12:53 PM
Moving toward her.
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She stopped. "…Hi."
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 1:02 PM
“I’m. Sorry about how rudely you were treated this morning.”
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"You get used to it."
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 1:08 PM
“That’s true. I guess I just don’t think about the fact that Alexei also acts like this towards people other than me.”
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"Why would you not think of that?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 1:12 PM
“I… don’t know. Maybe I just feel some sort of latent responsibility for their actions that I really shouldn’t concern myself with. You don’t need me to apologize on their behalf you already know him what am I doing.”
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"Is that it?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 1:20 PM
“I’m sorry am I interrupting something? I just thought maybe it’d be good to get to know each other seeing as we’re …colleagues now.”
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"I wouldn’t exactly call it that. You’re a client. Or a friend of one, anyway."
1:30 PM
"Do you support Belto Shelk?" The homeless man stumbled towards Harriet and Sarah.
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 1:35 PM
Harriet ignores him. "I thought Alexei was more than just a client to you."
1:35 PM
"Like a friend." she quickly adds.
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"I wouldn’t say that." Sarah. "Do you support Belto Shelk?" The homeless repeated.
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 1:38 PM
"I don't care about Belto Shelk. Why do you care?"
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He moved on to Sarah. "Do you support Belto Shelk?" Sarah ignored him.
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 1:52 PM
Sarah definitely seemed personally hurt this morning. Harriet decided not to push though. "That's my misunderstanding then. What brings you here anyway?"
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"I’m just taking a walk." Sarah. The homeless man gripped her arm. "Do you support Belto Shelk?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 2:20 PM
"Let go of her!" Harriet tries to tear the man's arm loose.
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((I’d say roll, but))
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 2:26 PM
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He holds on. "Do you support Belto Shelk!?" "Yes! Fine! I support Belto Shelk! Are you done?" Sarah tried to pull away.
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 2:32 PM
"I'm going to call the cops if you don't let go of her right now."
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He let her go at these words, and slid his hand into a ragged pocket. "The Fungus sends it’s regards."
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((Hi))
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((Do you want a makeup session))
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 8:07 PM
((When))
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((Both Saturday or Sunday work))
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 8:09 PM
((When on Sunday))
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((8pm))
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Harriet Kadin 8/26/2022 8:09 PM
((Right okay let’s do that))
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He let her go at these words, and slid his hand into a ragged pocket. "The Fungus sends it’s regards."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:02 PM
"Disgusting. Let's get away from here." She motions to Sarah.
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"Yeah." Sarah moved away from him. The homeless man took out a knife.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:05 PM
Oh no. Harriet pulls out her phone and starts dialing 911.
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Sarah pulls out a can of pepper spray.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:24 PM
That's a good thing to keep on hand. Harriet makes a mental note to buy some pepper spray. (edited)
8:25 PM
She then briefly fantasizes about spraying it in Tucker's face before reminding herself of the pressing circumstances she's in.
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The homeless man fails to stab Sarah and is instead sprayed in the face.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:32 PM
"You're resourceful. I'm glad I don't have to get police involved."
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"This is 911, what's your emergency?" 911 picks up. "Like I'd put my life in the hands of pigs." Sarah.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:33 PM
"...Hi sorry the emergency has passed." She hangs up immediately.
8:33 PM
"Do you know what this guy was talking about? The Fungus?" (edited)
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"Not a clue. Let's get away from here."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:35 PM
"Where do you suggest?"
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"What?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:37 PM
"..getting away from here implies a 'there' that we're going to, no?"
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"It's a... General 'let's not stay with the crazy murder homeless man'."
8:39 PM
"I wasn't under the impression you urgently needed to speak to me."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 8:42 PM
((a;sldkfjjjjjjj how do i put thoughts into words))
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((What was she cooking ninja tweet))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:06 PM
((I know what I’m doing I think..))
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((And what is that...))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:18 PM
((I don’t think I know what I’m doing anymore.))
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((So excited to find out why you needed an hour to answer these simple statements))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:31 PM
She’s right. There is no urgent need, they hardly know each other, why won’t Harriet just let her go about her day. Is it because of Alexei? Does she want to get to know her better on the basis of sharing a mutual friend? Absolutely not. Alexei isn’t her friend or Sarah’s. He threatened to murder her, he’s clearly stated that this revenge plot doesn’t exist to help Harriet, and he threw Sarah out of his place so rudely this morning. How could it be possible to consider him a friend? It doesn’t matter that she trusted xem to hear her out about Corpsehusband, or that she turned to them for help when Tucker physically threatened her. It doesn’t matter that socializing with him was the only respite she felt while working at Leiblinc. Her relationship with Alexei is purely professional. Then, is it because of her criminal experience. Does Harriet find satisfaction in acting out on a scale as large as this? Does she admire Sarah for being a more established member of the game? Absolutely not. This is just, a one time thing. Alexei is the one masterminding all of it and she got unwittingly roped up in it due to her gripes against Tucker. Even the secretary job was basically forced on her by Alexei, not influenced by any grander ambitions she may have had. She only cares about Sarah insofar as being on the same page with regards to this one time embezzlement plan, which isn’t necessary to discuss right now. So what gives. Sarah is effectively a stranger. A stranger who is confident, and self assured, and yells back at Alexei. A stranger who doesn’t rely on pigs to feel safe from threats. A brilliant resourceful suave stranger who carries pepper spray, god why didn’t she think to carry pepper spray? She just sat down and let the world walk all over her. Sarah doesn’t even have superpowers but that doesn’t matter to her, she makes use of what she has. “I’ve been such an idiot,” She thinks, “and I’ve been so dishonest with myself.” Harriet suddenly grabs Sarah’s hand. “I admire you. And I’d like to be your friend.” She quickly lets go, embarrassed. “Okay no I know I can’t force that on you. Sorry. It’s just, if you’re not busy, maybe we could get some [lunch/dinner I don’t know what time it is.]”
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((There is no second e in Alexi btw))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:33 PM
((Mb))
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Sarah blinked. "...Are you gay?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:36 PM
Her cheeks turn red. “What, no I didn’t mean it like that!!”
9:37 PM
She sighs. “Look I get it that was weird.” (edited)
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"I'm kidding. Well, I'm not, that was how it sounded, just... Never mind. I didn't know old people could be gay, is all."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:40 PM
“Hey I’m not that old.”
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"You're not?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:41 PM
((Reading back in our dms to see what age I decided for her okay maybe she is kind of old.))
9:44 PM
((Do I have permission to amend her age to 36 from 40, or does that mess anything up))
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((She's only 40???))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:45 PM
((How fuckin old did you think she was)) (edited)
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((60 something))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:47 PM
((Okay then I’ll just stick with 40))
9:47 PM
((Lmfao))
9:49 PM
“…I’m only 40. Fine it’s slightly embarrassing to admit that, maybe I’m a bit old.”
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((Her hair is like PURE grey))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:51 PM
((That’s a personal choice))
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"Anyway... Sure. Dinner." She walked away.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:51 PM
“Hey how are we going to coordinate plans?”
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"I was inviting you to follow."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:52 PM
“Oh.” She follows behind her
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Sarah entered a nearby apartment building.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 9:56 PM
“Is this where you live?”
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"Yeah. I cook. Call it a hobby."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:07 PM
She cooks too? Talk about self sufficient.
10:07 PM
“Oh that’s exciting.” Harriet follows.
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Sarah unlocked her apartment, and went inside.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:16 PM
((I thought she already went inside))
10:16 PM
Harriet continues to follow okay.
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The place is relatively small. The main area consists of a kitchen/living room. 3 doors to other rooms are accessible.
10:18 PM
((You were just in the building at first))
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:20 PM
“Thank you for accommodating me on such short notice. Your place looks great.” And she meant it. It’s larger than her own apartment for one thing.
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"You should see my parents’ home. Actual mansion." She looked through her kitchen.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:23 PM
“Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever set foot in a mansion.”
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"Have you set foot anywhere?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:27 PM
“Ha ha. It’s not my fault these figurative phrases are centered on the experiences of people who can walk.”
10:28 PM
“But no, if you really want to know. I’ve been paralyzed since birth.”
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"You ever wonder what it’s like? To feel your legs?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:35 PM
“Of course I’ve thought about it. But I mean, it’s not like I can do anything about it either. I can get around well enough, I don’t really feel the desire for legs that often anyway. Mainly I just wish some people weren’t so, cruel. That’s the main kicker that makes me feel hopeless sometimes.”
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"Cruel? Why would someone specifically single out you to be cruel to?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:38 PM
“Because I have a hard time fighting back, for obvious reasons.” (edited)
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"So what…? They just like the power?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:44 PM
"Yeah, I think that sums it up pretty well."
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"Men."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:45 PM
"Exactly."
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"That’s what the independent lifestyle is for. Only boss I have is my own body. And also Alexi, sometimes."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:47 PM
"How did you meet Alexi anyway?"
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"On the job. He is probably the worst client I’ve ever dealt with, but he was the first, so…" She shrugged.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:50 PM
"The job?"
10:50 PM
"Are you a full-time criminal or..." (edited)
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"I prefer the term freelancer. Usually whitehat hacker kind of deal, but that doesn’t exactly pay the bills."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:54 PM
"So Alexi was your first client huh.. How did he find you then?"
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"I genuinely don’t know. It’s not like she’d tell me. They’re crazy paranoid with information."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:56 PM
"Too paranoid for your skillset?"
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"He gets a pass. Call it optimism."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 10:59 PM
"Yeah I can understand that. You do know about Braun Fishery though right?"
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"What’s that?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:01 PM
"Oh, it's this pet store near her new apartment. I ran into it while exploring the area. Apparently her family used to own it?"
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"I don’t really check that kind of background."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:04 PM
"Hey I'm not a stalker, haha. I was trying to look for a Denny's in the area." (edited)
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"Who’s Adenny?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:06 PM
"Not Adenny. Denny's. It's a diner-style restaurant, but I guess given your self sufficient lifestyle it makes some sense you haven't heard of it." (edited)
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Girlbossing too hard to eat at a Denny's.
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11:10 PM
"I suppose so."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:10 PM
"So what are you making?"
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"Wasn’t expecting guests, so don’t expect anything too fancy."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:13 PM
"Ah don't worry there's no expectations here. I'm sure you're a better cook than me anyway."
11:13 PM
"I do enough to keep myself alive, basically."
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"Don’t think I’m doing too much better."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:28 PM
"I'll be the judge of that."
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Sarah brought 2 plates of spaghetti over to the kitchen counter. "Bone appetite, or however it goes."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:53 PM
((sorry I was finishing up some german hw))
11:53 PM
"Looks good." She takes a bite.
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It’s fine. Average spaghetti.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:54 PM
"Yeah I can't complain. So you, never eat out?"
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"Feels like a betrayal."
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:56 PM
"Betraying who? Yourself?"
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"In a sense." She spun the fork around in the spaghetti without eating.
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Harriet Kadin 8/28/2022 11:59 PM
"I mean I respect the commitment, just seems rather difficult to stick to."
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"How were your parents?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/29/2022 12:01 AM
((you're forcing me to create a backstory))
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((I’ll let you think of it over the week because I gtg sorry))
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Harriet Kadin 8/29/2022 12:09 AM
((goodnight!))
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((Friday))
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"How were your parents?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2022 11:11 AM
“Quite a forward question haha.” She responds a bit nervously. “My parents were nothing special. I learned from an early age that I was going to have to take care of myself, so I don’t have much of a relationship with them.”
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((Oh hi))
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2022 11:37 AM
((I have to go for a while at noon lol))
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((I thought you were still sick I wasn’t expecting any sessions today)) "Fair enough. Sorry, I was just wondering with all the praise about the fact I can cook…"
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2022 11:47 AM
“Really I’m just surprised you can manage it while also having a career. Mom cooked for us but she didn’t do much of anything else either.”
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"Well, I push everything aside if a job does come. But I’m rarely in any kind of actual rush."
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2022 11:57 AM
“You don’t get work often?”
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"Well, I do, it’s just… I can work through it fairly easily. Or sometimes it’s more of a longterm project."
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2022 12:02 PM
“What did you do before you started… freelancing?”
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"Mostly just relied on my dad’s money."
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((Friday))
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"Mostly just relied on my dad’s money."
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"He was filthy rich. Still is. Ever had King Burger? They used to be around 20 years ago."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 4:38 PM
"King Burger? Of course I have. Whatever happened to it?"
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"Dad sold, and the place all fell apart afterwards. Now he sits on piles of money and does nothing but fight with mom all day. Hell house." She groaned. "But at least life went by fairly cheap."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 4:44 PM
"I suppose you don't spend much time with them anymore then."
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"Fuck no. My siblings and I aren’t really in contact either. It’s a free-er life like that anyway."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 4:47 PM
"Oh you have siblings?"
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"2 brothers. 1 sister. You have any?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 4:55 PM
"I have a younger brother but I could not tell you much about him. It's kind of depressing having to process out loud how little of a family life I have, haha."
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"Nah, it’s fine. Feel proud of it if anything. Life of the unshackled."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:00 PM
"Does your preference for home cooked meals have anything to do with, your King Burger history?"
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"Not directly."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:06 PM
"It's just funny that you come from this family and have no awareness of Denny's."
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"Is it?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:09 PM
"Well, it's ironic isn't it. Fast Food connection and all."
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"I guess so." She put her plate aside. "Anyway, it’s getting late."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:14 PM
"Thanks for the meal. And the chat. And the reassurance."
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"No problem. I’m not exactly in a place to be stingy with that stuff."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:19 PM
"I wish I had met you a long time ago."
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"Uh… Thank you?" She doesn’t seem to know how to respond.
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:21 PM
"Oh sorry. I think I should get going."
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"It’s… Fine. Good night."
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:23 PM
"Goodnight Sarah." Harriet leaves
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She waved goodbye as Harriet left.
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:31 PM
Harriet makes her way back to the park. That's where her car is parked after all.
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Her car is still there yup.
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:40 PM
Sarah is still so cool. Maybe Harriet doesn't have a King Burger stockpile of wealth to rest her laurels on. But she's Tucker's new secretary. She can do this. She can be just like her. Harriet gets in her car and goes home.
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Harriet arrived home.
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:44 PM
She checks her email again. Has Tucker responded to her contract draft?
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He has not.
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 5:53 PM
That's somewhat concerning. Did Tucker change his mind? Did Shuichi Maoziwam interfere? Hopefully it'll be straightened out by the morning.
5:57 PM
She's getting ready to go to bed when she realizes she left the light on in the bathroom.
5:57 PM
Getting out of bed would be a hassle.
5:59 PM
She sighs. Well then. It's not really taking charge of her life if she doesn't make peace with what she is capable of. "I'm sorry Corpse Husband. I gave up on you too soon. Could you turn off that light for me?" (edited)
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Corpse Husband shuts the light.
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 6:02 PM
"Thank you." She closes her eyes.
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((In the sense of sleeping or))
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2022 6:13 PM
((Yeah in the sense of sleeping.))
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((The chapter and session ends.)) (edited)
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5: Auspicious Guardian
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Advehnt Guard
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Harriet woke up in her bed the next day.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:01 PM
((like i said, i've never done this before, so please lemme know if i'm fucking things up))
2:02 PM
She's not sure how to start the day, exactly, other than eating breakfast and all that. She decides to check her email and messages to see if Sarah's contacted her since yesterday.
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She has not. Carl has responded, however.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:04 PM
She checks his message.
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'approved' That’s all the email says.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:09 PM
((sorry, wasnt the one she emailed tucker?))
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((Carl Tucker is his full name))
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:14 PM
((i am a fucking idiot))
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((Deeply curious who you thought Carl was))
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:15 PM
((i dunno!!! just my buddy carl..))
2:16 PM
She shoots off a quick thumbs up in response, trying not to be irritated at his lack of response. After that, she tests the air, trying to ascertain if she and Corpse Husband were still on good terms. "Are you there?" Harriet asks, hoping for some kind of physical confirmation.
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It appears.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:22 PM
Harriet exhales a sigh of relief. Good. He'll be useful. She should probably get to work and see what's going on at the office.
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If I am to read this as an implication Harriet went to the office, she arrived now.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:43 PM
((sorry that was the implication yes))
2:44 PM
She wonders.. "Corpse Husband, would you get me a coffee from the break room?"
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Corpse Husband vanishes for a moment, before returning with the Harriet's preferred kind of coffee. To be clear, Harriet is currently in the parking lot, she has not entered the building itself yet.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:51 PM
She asks him - "Corpse Husband, was the.. door unlocked? Like, can you travel through walls?"
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Corpse Husband indicates that as a ghost it can go through walls.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 2:52 PM
"But you can still hold objects? Can you make yourself tangible and intangible at will?"
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It nods.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 3:01 PM
She notes that information for later, then wheels herself into her building, to the elevator and onto her floor.
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Harriet arrived at the CEO's floor. An impromptu desk has been set up in front of Carl's office.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 3:04 PM
"Is this... supposed to be my desk?" She wonders aloud.
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Carl's office doors open, and out steps the man himself. "Oh, you're here." He clears his throat, before putting on a really pathetic 'deep' voice. "Great."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 3:11 PM
She suppresses the tinge of irritation she immediately gets whenever she sees him, although she feels more on edge than usual today. "So... what's the plan?" She says awkwardly.
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"Yeah, plans and stuff... I got so many, it's like unreal. I'm all planned out for like, life. For you though, you can just like... Sit there. Like wheelchair people do. Maybe up the makeup, smile more.. The drill, you know? Makes me look more respectable if the guys dig you, you know? Like... 'Wow, he's got hot chicks all around and he's to cool o go for them? What a hero!' Not that I..." He flashes the most overpracticed smile ever. "Aren't already the coolest one. All responsible, and not getting drunk on work hours. Like the best bosses do." Carl's breath reeks of alcohol.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 3:29 PM
Harriet smiles at him, her body shaking slightly from the strain of maintaining the farce. "Coool. Cool cool cool cool cool. Well. I'm so glad you're so.. responsible. And paternalistic," she says. (edited)
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"Yeah, yeah. Patterns and shit. Good one. I'm real cool." He clears his throat, and readjusts his shirt. "Could you repeat that? The compliment. I've just uh... Heard it so much, as like a great boss, that I don't really like perceive it until it's said twice."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 3:37 PM
She wonders if he's getting off on this. "You're so cooool," she says between gritted teeth. (edited)
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"Yeah... Yeah, thanks. Well, uh... I'll be in my office and stuff."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 3:46 PM
She really wishes he was dead. Or she was dead. Or someone in this equation/conversation/office was dead. She waits for him to go back to his office before saying what she wants to.
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Carl enters his office.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 3:49 PM
She sighs, muscles in her back relaxing, before whispering - "Corpse Husband, do you think you could throw that coffee from before at him?"
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Corpse Husband enters the office. A second later, Carl lets out a scream of pain.
3:58 PM
The phone rings.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:02 PM
Harriet grins. "Nice." Harriet wonders if enjoying that makes her a bad person. I mean. Carl sucks, to be sure. Is kind of objectively the worst. But is it in breach of some social contract with herself, to enjoy someone else's suffering like that? Does it make her a mysteriously different person than she was several days ago, by some greater cosmic joke? Although obviously that would never happen. Whatever. She startles at the sound of the phone. Picks it up. "Hello? This is Leading Image Blender Incorporated. How may we help you?" (edited)
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It's Sean Niebel.
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-and-sean
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Sean Niebel 10/1/2022 4:06 PM
"Carl."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:10 PM
"Uh.. this is Harriet Kadin. Do you need Carl for something?"
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Sean Niebel 10/1/2022 4:10 PM
"Yes."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:11 PM
"Uh.. okay. I'll connect you with him in a second." Harriet knocks on Carl's door.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:24 PM
She returns to the phone and says, apologetically, "He says he's busy."
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Sean Niebel 10/1/2022 4:25 PM
"When can I call him, then?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:26 PM
"Uh... Give me a second to check."
4:28 PM
"He says February 32nd."
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Sean Niebel 10/1/2022 4:29 PM
"Is he drunk again?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:41 PM
"Uhh... he says no. Quite emphatically."
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Sean Niebel 10/1/2022 4:42 PM
"What is he even doing? Why do you have his phone?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:44 PM
"You called the office, not his personal phone... I was just near it when it rang, is all?"
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Sean Niebel 10/1/2022 4:49 PM
"I have not yet forgotten what phone I am calling. What are you trying to accomplish with this lie?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:55 PM
"I swear to god, you called the work phone."
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Sean Niebel 10/1/2022 4:58 PM
"Stop joking or I'm hanging up. I guess you haven't actually talked to Carl either?"
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((This can't be heard on the phone so I'll run the Carl parts through here.)) "Uh... Yeah?" Carl calls out through the door.
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:16 PM
"Call for you!" Harriet says.
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"Oh, uh... Who?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:18 PM
"He didn't say."
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"Uh, tell him I'm busy."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:26 PM
"He wants to know when he can call again."
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He thinks to himself for a moment, before coming up with a genius idea. "February 32nd."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:31 PM
"He wants to know if you're drunk again." ((Also, how much longer do you think this session will be? I don't think I'll be able to do more than 3 hours every saturday, so I'll probably need to be done by 5~ish.))
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((Alright, good to know. Session length isn't really planned I just go until someone asks to leave))
4:35 PM
"What? No way! I've... I've never been drunk. Not a drop in my life."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:36 PM
"Ok, well, what should I tell him?"
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"Tell him... Tell him no!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 4:51 PM
((He's insisting he called Carl's home phone but I assumed that it was the work phone that was ringing so not sure what's going on))
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((That is indeed what was ringing))
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 5:01 PM
"Oh, for christ's sake. Carl, can you just take the phone already?? I think it's really important." She tries to shove it into his hand.
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"Fine!" He takes it.
5:02 PM
"Who is this?" He says it into the phone.
5:03 PM
"Oh, boss!" He clears his throat. "I mean... Person that I know from outside of work."
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 5:06 PM
((I'm gonna head out now))
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((I was hoping you'd leave the room first so I could keep the other session going but oh well))
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 6:50 PM
((Good job!))
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Harriet Kadin 10/1/2022 8:30 PM
((Thank you!!))
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((Saturday. Though, if possible, could you make it to a makeup session at some point this week? Partially due to the whole scheduling issues that brought you here in the first place, there’s a pretty big gap between you, Sean, and some others vs the rest. This isn’t required or anything))
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Harriet Kadin 10/2/2022 10:33 PM
((I can’t say I’ll be able to for sure. Will need a bit to figure out what my schedule is for next week, but I’ll lyk if I have the time))
10:33 PM
((Like I’ve mentioned before I’m pretty booked until late October))
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((Lmk as soon as you’re here))
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 2:09 PM
((It’ll be like 3:20-3:15 and I’ll have to leave around 5.))
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 3:34 PM
((I'm ready @Ehn/PC . Can go until 5 so we'll have to be quick))
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"Oh, uh. Sure. How much?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 3:40 PM
((are you narrating carl talking to the sean on the phone rn))
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((Yes))
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 3:41 PM
((ok cool just clarifying))
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"Yeah, sure. Yeah. Sending it." Carl nods to himself.
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"Oh, uh. Just tell her it’s you next time." Carl looks at Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 3:53 PM
"What?"
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He hands back the phone. "Oh, that was the boss. The uh… Old one. Niebel."
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 4:05 PM
"Oh." She frowns. "Why didn't he just say it was him?"
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"He’s way too cool for that, come on. He’s like… A god among men. In a cool normal way that people would say that."
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 4:09 PM
"Would you like a pat on the back for being very normal about things?"
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"Yeah, good idea. I’ll ask Levinson later. Anyway, back to your post. I have… So much work, you have no idea."
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 4:19 PM
Harriet blinks at him, before wheeling herself dejectedly back to her "post" - which she really cannot emphasize enough is just a shitty desk Carl set up right in front of his office. Sometimes she cannot believe the fucking nerve of that guy. She knows it's part of the job description, technically, but being beholden to someone's every incoherent, ridiculous whims is very hard work! She boots up her laptop and attempts to engage with the more tedious part of her job - scrolling through her Twitter while "looking like a woke piece of meat" for Carl. Predictably, she finds her attention sputtering.
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After a short while, the elevator is once again opened by Shuichi Maoziwam.
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 4:23 PM
Harriet looks up. Feels, once again, the audible shift in her brain. Time to get the show rolling. "Mr Maoziwam! How may I help you?"
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"Who are you? Where is Carl?" He doesn’t seem to perceive the human sitting in front of him as a person.
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 4:40 PM
Harriet smiles. It's stiff all over. She's stiff all over. Plastic in her seat, glazed-over doll eyes. The works. "He's in his office. Right behind me, sir." The "sir" slips out unbidden, like she's a dog trained slightly too well to stop.
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He continues to stare at her for a moment longer, visibly displeased, before entering Carl's office.
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 4:47 PM
Harriet exhales before slumping against the desk, before shooting up. "Corpse Husband?" She whispers.
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It appears.
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 4:58 PM
"Do you think you could sneak in there and tell me what they're saying? Like, write it down or something? You can lift a pen, right?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/8/2022 5:14 PM
((Have to leave now, sorry)
5:14 PM
((Will try to schedule a makeup session soon, I know I'm behind))
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He begins writing out the following conversation. SHUICHI: Carl. Who is that woman? CARL: Oh, she's... My secretary. You know, like rich people have. SHUICHI: Why would you need a secretary? Are you truly so deluded as to believe any person would wish to speak to you? Do you actually expect to accomplish any work in your life? CARL: Wow... You are... You're saying a lot of words there, I'm not sure I heard right? Let's uh... Let's maybe pivot back. To how great it is... That she would listen to me. Shows how respected I am. SHUICHI: Carl. What part of that is great to you? The respect? Do you actually believe that that (misogynistic slur) respects you? That the respect of her alone would mean anything? CARL: … SHUICHI: Listen to me clearly. No one in this building will ever respect you. No one in this building will ever love you. But you don't need them. They don't matter whatsoever. Fire the secretary. CARL: Wow, that's... That's so crazy. I could've sworn you said this wild thing. But let's just swerve into something more important... Like how good my work ethic is. SHUICHI: Do you want the truth, Carl? CARL: Yeah. Yeah! I love the truth.
5:24 PM
SHUICHI: Then listen to it. Your work ethic is terrible. You've only ever received any promotion out of nepotism. I picked you as CEO because you were the worst and most gullible person I had ever met. I can insult you to your face and be met with complete and total dismissal. You're pathetic. And that's exactly why I need you, Carl. CARL: There's uh. There's a 'but' in there, right? SHUICHI: No. Your existence is bafflingly pathetic. Impressively so. In the face of our boring and agonizing reality, you have managed to become a joke. In all ways that matter, you are blind. Deaf. Essentially braindead. No response you have ever given me has managed to connect to a single word I say. If you were to die, the only respect you would have earned from anyone would be a laugh. CARL: Sounds... Uh.... Sounds real positive. SHUICHI: Everyone despises you, Carl Tucker. CARL: Let's... Uhh… Maybe discuss something else? Like, how cool I am. And how cool it is... That I have... Umm... A secretary? SHUICHI: Whatever the case, that's not why I'm here. CARL: I'm sure she won't disappoint. I like... Personally picked her out and shit. SHUICHI: We have changed topics. This is about your old boss, Sean Niebel- CARL: Like, well... If you miss your wife, you know she could- This next line is audible even without Corpse Husband. Shuichi yells out in violent anger. "SHUT UP, CARL!"
5:25 PM
((Ok see ya))
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((Saturday, though let me know if you could make it to a makeup session))
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"SHUT UP, CARL!" Shuichi.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 2:03 PM
Harriet stares blankly at the paper in her hands - seeing it, but not recognizing anything on the page. When she speaks, her voice is a toneless whisper. "Keep writing."
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Corpse Husband continues writing. SHUICHI: Shut up, Carl! CARL: Sorry. SHUICHI: Carl. Do you truly want respect? Do you want people to remember you? In death, do you desire to be more than void? CARL: Uh... Yeah. Yeah! That sounds great! Yeah! SHUICHI: Good. I want these things as well. And I shall acquire them no matter what. There is no force in this world more powerful than to be respected by it. Do you not agree? CARL: Yeah, yeah! Totally! So true! SHUICHI: I would prefer if you spoke in cohesive sentence rather than bumbling through language like a blind man trapped in a dictionary. CARL: Uh... Alright, will do. Yeah, respect is great. When I die, I'll make sure people remember me. Rather than... SHUICHI: Still terrible, but improvement enough I suppose. The point is, as I say, I shall acquire them. And as I do so, you stand the chance to perhaps take some of the scraps of my success for yourself. CARL: They're uh... They're good scraps, right? SHUICHI: Yes. They are good scraps for someone of your worth. Much more than you'd ever find in your lifetime normally, I'd wager. CARL: Then... Then what's the deal! What do I have to do? SHUICHI: For now, nothing. And in general, absolutely nothing I do not order you to do. Can you do that? Of course you can, I require no brain effort from you in the slightest. It is impossible for you to fail as you would normally, were I to request anything from you. I simply need to know you will not be impulsive and rash, like the mere monkey you are unsupervised. CARL: Yeah. Yeah... I can listen.
2:24 PM
SHUICHI: Good. From now on, make no contact with Sean Niebel that I do not instruct you to do. That man is to stay alone, no matter what. Can you do this? CARL: Uh, well... I'm all for following your plans but uh... The boss is kinda my hero too, y'know? I can't just- SHUICHI: He is not your boss. I am. Nor does he care about you in the slightest. Do you value pathetic one-sided adoration more than respect? If you cannot perform this simple task, I will throw you out the door and find a more useful replacement. Even your secretary could do better. Is that what you want? Is that how far you're willing to stoop for Niebel? CARL: Uh... SHUICHI: Answer the question. CARL: No, sir. ...Will do. You're the boss. SHUICHI: Good. That will be all, then. Do not fail me. Shuichi left the office.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 2:33 PM
Harriet exhales - a low, almost terrified sigh. She considers - sending Corpse Husband to break his arm, or something, make him feel just as humiliated as she feels right now - but dismisses the idea immediately. She doubts Corpse Husband's capable of that. Instead, she looks up to the clock on the wall to check the time.
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As Harriet discovers it's around 2PM, Carl lets out a loud and anguished cry from within his office. For the next few minutes he can be heard crying and hitting things.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 2:48 PM
Harriet's not sure when she gets off work, so she stays put. At the sound of Carl's wailing, she feels a sense of satisfaction wash over her, cold. Harriet stares down at her phone and decides to text Sarah, who would probably know how to handle this situation better than Harriet handled it - by doing nothing, by being so gormless, so fragile. Sarah's smart, and she's brave, and she - she would know what to do in a situation like this, right? Harriet begins carefully composing a text. Serious fucking business, right here. Like defusing a nuclear warhead, but with slightly more humiliation involved. How are u? No, don’t be stupid. Hey :) No, that sucks. Hey. Do you want to be best friends? Because your sense of self-worth is better than mine, and I’m hoping it’ll rub off on me.. Fuck. That sucks too. Finally, Harriet settles on “What’s up?”
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Sarah responds with "busy sorry" about a minute late. After a little bit, she adds "got the worst job ever".
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 2:51 PM
"Oh?" texts Harriet, trying extremely hard not to come off as needy.
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'ever heard of kidink? absolute psycho'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 2:55 PM
Harriet frowns. "Vaguely"
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Long gap this time. 'lucky'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 2:57 PM
"Do you mind telling me about him"
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'her'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 2:59 PM
"Fine, mind telling me about her?"
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Harriet gets a text from Alexi. 'Fine. I'm sorry'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:02 PM
Harriet frowns, confused. "What?" she sends Alexi.
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'thats what you wanted right? need me to stop being an ass and kiss yours???? fine. im SORRY. just stop working there and get over here'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:05 PM
((am I supposed to know where "here" is or is Alexi being vague on purpose))
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((He is implying The Apartment))
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:09 PM
"I'm still at work," she starts typing back - then shoots a look at Carl's door, where she's fairly certain she can still hear the sound of faint sobbing - and deletes it in favor of "I'm coming now." Quietly, she attempts to wheel herself out of the office.
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Carl suddenly bursts out the door, with wet eyes he struggled to cover up. "Hey, uhhh... Walls in there... They're pretty noiseproof, yeah? Real silent?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:12 PM
Shit. "Uh.. yeah, Carl." She says through her teeth. "Not a peep. Listen, can I, like..." she trails off and begins gesturing to the elevator.
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"Yeah, great." He clears his throat. "Gonna need a desk repairman. Let me tell you, the new boss, Shuichi? Completely blew it apart. Real anger issues, that guy. But I held strong. Strong... And cool. Tell me how valued I am aga-" He cuts himself off. "Uh... Doing fine. Gonna get one of those repairman. For the... Rest of the day. Bye." He steps into the elevator.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:16 PM
Harriet blinks, astonished, at her own luck. She waits for the elevator to take him down.
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Sarah texts back with a link to a website about Naomi Kidink's legal practice.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:19 PM
Harriet, distracted from the elevator, clicks on the link and reads what the webpage says.
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Naomi seems to be a very popular criminal defense lawyer leading a law firm here in the city of Avengard.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:23 PM
She scrolls down, trying to see if there's anything incriminating.
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Seems like a standard lawyer.
3:24 PM
The elevator is available again.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:25 PM
Harriet wheels herself to the elevator. While she's waiting for it to go down, she texts Sarah "I don't see anything too bad here"
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'yeah shes just a bitch'
3:28 PM
'reminds me of my mom'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:29 PM
"Whoa, kind of a loaded statement haha"
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'yeah i just wanted to hate on both of them again'
3:31 PM
'but shes got a son too. treats him like shit. apparently hes run away'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:33 PM
"Oh wow, that's pretty intense. What happened to him?"
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'no clue. i talk to him sometimes hes a cool kid'
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:37 PM
"Cool." Harriet wonders why the elevator hasn't stopped yet.
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The elevator arrives.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:42 PM
Harriet wheels herself out and to the parking lot, where she locates her car and clambers into it. "OMW" she texts Alexi.
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Alexi does not reply.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:50 PM
Harriet reaches Alexi's apartment.
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She opens the door. "Finally, come in."
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 3:52 PM
Harriet wheels herself in. "What's wrong?" She asks without preamble.
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"You want to threaten me? Fine. I can justify all of this." Their breathing was shaky.
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Harriet Kadin 10/15/2022 4:00 PM
((I feel like this should be picked back up when my attention span is better. Done for today))
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((Fuck. Alright then))
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((Saturday))
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"You want to threaten me? Fine. I can justify all of this." Their breathing was shaky.
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 4:04 PM
Harriet feels a sharp pang of anger. Who does he think he is? "Justify it, then."
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"Carl Tucker, LeIBlInc, Sean Niebel, so on... They don't really mean anything. They don't matter. You can find 50 assholes just like those 2. Skimming some of their money for ourselves doesn't mean anything if you cut it off there, and taking an honest job under them's even worse. You're pathetic." Her words lacked any of the confidence they were supposed to present.
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 4:15 PM
Harriet startles, feeling her hands shake on her wheelchair. The fucking nerve of her. Prissy bitch up on his high horse thinks she can talk about - what? Committing grand larceny? Some other dramatic, excessive crime? Do they just not get it? Harriet doesn’t have a choice - has never had a choice. Not the way Alexi does, not ever. “Excuse me for trying to make a living.” Harriet says, face burning.
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"You really think this is a living in any sense of the word? You're a slave. 'Yes, Carl', 'No, Carl', 'Everyone loves you Carl'. He asks you to jump, you say 'how high?' and then remember you can't fucking stand." She finishes her search, and pulls out a photograph. "You think this is some kind of improvement? Look at you, living the highlife. Same job, same boss, and you think that's a living? You annoy him too much, you'll be dead on the street in a month. Fuck you."
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 4:26 PM
“You don’t have anything.” Harriet hisses, incandescent. “Sorry that I’m not a good enough puppet for you to jerk around, sorry I'm not the good cripple. Do you think I don’t know any of this? Of course I’m just a slice of meat to him, you stupid asshole. You’re asking me to set myself on fire to keep you warm, and I can’t - I won’t-” Harriet stops, overcome. Then, quietly - “At least he pays me. At least he doesn’t.. do these fucking mind games, alright. I know I’m a bad - I know I’m a bad leftist, I know I’m bad, I know I’m wrong. But what else is there, okay? For someone like me?”
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"I don't fucking care about your politics. If you ask me, I'd let everyone on this earth die under fascism if it served my purposes. I don't care." He attempts some kind of smirk but it just looks weirdly forced. "Point is, I'm in this for myself. And unlike Carl, I need you for more than a little praise. I'm not even the kind of person who deserves or needs praise, anyway." He sighs. "I have a plan. And if you're willing to stop sucking up to the most moronic man ever conceived, I can make it benefit you too."
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 4:43 PM
Harriet tries to calm herself down. She’s still shaking - still sweating - but she manages to exhale and settle further in her chair. Here’s the issue. She doesn’t - know what to do, exactly. She doesn’t trust that Alexi won’t do the same thing to her. Give her some figurehead position and leave her there, the token cripple, riding off of everyone else’s coattails, always, always. She doesn’t trust Alexi, period. Not the way she talks or acts or the way she suggests things. But. What choice does she have, right? It’s being Carl’s puppet forever otherwise. She can’t. And she wants to be a brave person, right? She wants to be someone who makes good choices, inspired choices, revolutionary choices. She wants to be good. She wants to do something she knows for sure is correct. To not fuck it up again. “I’ll hear you out.”
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"Good. Have you ever heard of Jeff Johnner?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 4:45 PM
"No."
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"He's a mob boss. Leads the criminal underworld of this city with an iron fist or whatever. The police has nothing they can tie him to, but everyone knows he's guilty as sin. Only problem is, he's not actually the boss. Only he knows the identity of the leader, and I doubt he plans to tell anyone. What I'm thinking is, a quick bit of identity theft and... a little murder... and a good enough con artist can sit on top of the throne just like that. We don't have to work another day in our lives."
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 4:56 PM
"A little what?"
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"It's not ideal." They raise their hands defensively. "But be honest, do you really value knockoff Al Capone's life over your own?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:01 PM
"I- I don't want to kill anyone, jesus!"
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"I'm not asking you to be the assassin! I doubt you could even pull it off." He sighs. "Point is, I have an easy ticket to the top. Without you, I'm dead in the water. Without me, you're stuck kissing Tucker's ass for the rest of your life. Are you in, or not?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:11 PM
Harriet sighs. This.. can’t possibly be a good idea. But she doesn’t know what else to do anymore. “Alright.”
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Alexi almost lets out the words "Thank you" but stops herself midway. They raise a photograph. "This is him. Jeff Johnner." The second Harriet sees this man, her vision seems to weirdly double. Or rather, it's like she's looking at the same man through 2 separate sets of eyes. Her body begins to feel like she's splitting in half, and an agonizing scream escapes her lips. The body of Harriet Kadin loses consciousness, but she continues to watch Jeff Johnner from a second form. Harriet is in what appears to be a tiny prison cell. There are metal bars on each side, and an uncomfortable looking mattress. There is a small slot that seems to be used for delivering food. The room outside the cell has room for more stuff, and seems like some kind of storage room. There is also another cage that is currently empty. Standing just outside the cell is Johnner, but also inside the cell is the one you call 'Corpse Husband', more commonly known as ???, in a fully human form.
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((hi))
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:26 PM
((hiiii))
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"Uh... what?"
5:27 PM
I stare at the woman. "What's happening? Who are you?" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:28 PM
Harriet stares. "You tell me who you are first!"
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"I'm... Marco Gould!"
5:29 PM
"Not that it matters. Again, who are you?"
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"Who are you talking to?" Johnner.
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:32 PM
"What???"
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"Oh. I'm talking to that woman in the wheelchair." I point to her.
5:32 PM
"Why is she here?"
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He doesn't seem amused. "Goodnight." He walked away.
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"Is it?"
5:33 PM
"..."
5:34 PM
"Uh, what was I saying? Why are you here?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:34 PM
"Uh.. I'm Harriet. And.. I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm just.. really confused. Fuck."
5:35 PM
"Why are you... why are we... in prison?"
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"I don't know."
5:35 PM
"You just appeared here. Don't you know where you were?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:36 PM
"I was at a friend's house. Why don't you know why you're in prison? Aren't they supposed to put you on trial before they lock you up?"
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"Trial?"
5:37 PM
"I don't actually remember anything that happened before I woke up here."
5:37 PM
"The group that put me in this 'prison' removed my memory."
5:39 PM
I hesitate. "If you remember where you were, don't you know why you're in prison? Shouldn't you still have your memory?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:40 PM
"I don't know anything! I was at someone's house, and now I'm here. Is this some conspiracy bullshit? Am I being recorded?"
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"I don't know!"
5:41 PM
"Can you stand?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:42 PM
"No. That's why I have a wheelchair."
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"...Then now what are you doing?" (edited)
5:44 PM
"Do you have a way out of here?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:47 PM
"No. I don't... know any more than you do."
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"Are you sure?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:49 PM
"Yes! Oh my god."
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"I'm just supposed to sleep, then. Is that okay? Are you going to get in my way?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:54 PM
"What? What do you mean, you're supposed to sleep?"
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"That's what he told me. 'Sleep well', and repeat my name to myself before I fall asleep."
5:56 PM
"I don't have any better ideas."
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 5:58 PM
"I.. alright. I guess I can try and sleep too. God, this is so weird..."
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"Can you sleep sitting on that thing? Won't it be too uncomfortable?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 6:01 PM
"I can sleep while sitting down, it's fine."
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i look skeptical. "Okay."
6:02 PM
"Fine. Let's just try to sleep here now."
6:03 PM
"You first?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 6:04 PM
"Alright." Harriet leans back and closes her eyes. Tries to think of nothing.
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I watch her.
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Harriet realizes the concept of tiredness seems to no longer exist for her.
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 6:07 PM
Harriet jerks to alertness. "Fuck. Okay, that's not working."
6:08 PM
"You said you could."
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Harriet Kadin 10/22/2022 6:09 PM
"Okay, well, now I can't. Why don't you try?"
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"...Uh, I suppose I can."
6:13 PM
I lay on the mattress face-up and start to mutter to myself. "My name is Marco Gould. My name is Marco Gould. My name is Marco Gould. My name is Marco Gould."
6:14 PM
I slowly lower in volume as I let the chant drift into my thoughts, and attempt to sleep.
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Marco falls asleep. This somehow makes Harriet lose consciousness. The chapter ends for both.
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6: Altered Grounds
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Harriet is still stuck with Marco Gould. They’re in a new room, some kind of bedroom. The place isn’t too furnished, mostly just a bunch of lame expensive trinkets.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:08 PM
"Where the fuck am I."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:15 PM
"...Ah. You're here."
2:15 PM
I smile wryly. "How do you feel?" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:17 PM
Harriet groans. "My head hurts."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:21 PM
"Naturally." I drag myself up to my feet and step up to Harriet. "And for what reason do you believe you're here?" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:23 PM
Harriet rubs her forehead and finds it sticky with sweat. "I don't know. Do I need a reason? I don't understand anything better than you do."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:26 PM
"That's funny. In that case, I'd expect you to be a little more upset."
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Harriet starts crying uncontrollably.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:28 PM
I laugh. "That's more fitting."
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:30 PM
"Wait, what?" Harriet says through the tears. "I'm not doing that."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:32 PM
"Not doing what?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:36 PM
"The crying," Harriet says, crying.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:39 PM
"You're in denial. Just as victims like you always are, no?" (edited)
2:40 PM
"I can see you crying. How could tears be streaming down your face if you aren't? That's impossible."
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:43 PM
"I'm not a victim. I'm a strong person! I'm strong. It's not me doing this. It's not me. It's someone else. I wouldn't do that! I wouldn't. I'm strong."
2:44 PM
Harriet tries to wipe her tears away.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:47 PM
"You're strong? Aren't you disabled?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:49 PM
"Like! Emotionally! Metaphorically! Also, shut the fuck up."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 2:50 PM
"That's awfully prudish of you."
2:51 PM
"Who do you think is in control? Who do you think has power here?"
2:52 PM
"Answer me."
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 2:59 PM
Harriet stares up at him. She remembers Carl's pathetic, slack face. The cold rumble of Shuichi's voice from beyond the door. She's strong, right? She's brave, right? Not just disabled eye candy, right? Sarah would know how to handle this situation, probably. Anyone other than Harriet wouldn't make themselves a worthless fucking pitybait cripple, jerked around by forces she doesn't understand, never brave, never smart, never strong. "You, I guess."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:04 PM
"Exactly. So if I say you're not strong, you're not strong."
3:04 PM
"Ahh... what should I be doing today?" I think to myself.
3:07 PM
I walk up to the door out and pull it open.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:12 PM
I follow.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:12 PM
I step through.
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Beyond the door is a living room with a mini-kitchen area. On one side of the table in the middle is an in-progress game of chess. On the other end is this girl, chugging beer.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:18 PM
Harriet frowns. "Hello?"
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No reaction.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:19 PM
I smirk and approach the ongoing Chess game.
3:19 PM
"Good morning. May I join?"
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There is no one AT the chess game the pieces are just laid out.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:19 PM
Oh.
3:20 PM
I head to the mini-kitchen area and look for some food.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:21 PM
Harriet rolls up to the girl and attempts to wave her hand in front of her face.
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There is food in the kitchen area. The girl does not react to Harriet.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:22 PM
I grab some food, take a seat, and start eating.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:23 PM
Harriet pinches the girl's cheek.
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She looks around in confusion.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:27 PM
"Hello? Are you okay?" (edited)
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No reaction.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:30 PM
Harriet thinks for a second, before letting out a low groan of irritation. She slaps the beer can out of the girl's hand and waits for a reaction.
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She gets up, and glances around in confusion. She eventually looks at Marco. "…You’re Marco right?"
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:32 PM
"Right."
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"You doing something?"
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:33 PM
"Eating."
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"No, I mean like…" She gestures vaguely.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:34 PM
Harriet begins screaming very loudly.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:34 PM
"..."
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She doesn’t react.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:35 PM
"Okay, I see what's going on here. Ha ha, very funny, the disabled girl doesn't exist."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:36 PM
I'm mildly amused.
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Harriet is unable to open her mouth now.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:39 PM
I go to grab a drink, gulp it down and sit down again.
3:39 PM
"...What are you doing?" I say this to the pink-haired girl.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:39 PM
Harriet wheels herself over to the fridge and begins slamming the door open and closed.
3:39 PM
Loudly.
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"Is this place possessed now or somethin'?" The girl.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:41 PM
Harriet grabs Marco's drink and attempts to throw it in his face.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:43 PM
"Ah. It's nothing."
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Harriet is forced to stop 'being annoying' and throws herself on the floor.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:47 PM
Harriet stares blankly at the ground. This is what you get, right? This is what you're supposed to be, right? Mute, blind, dumb, nothing, watching as fucking men make power plays and flirt with insipid women for the rest of time. Is this hell? This has to be hell.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:49 PM
"So... what was I saying? What's going on today with you?"
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"The others left to do stuff, but I didn’t feel like going." She picks up her beer can and throws it at the trash can. She misses completely.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:53 PM
"Ah. What are they doing?"
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Harriet crawls over to the can, and throws it into the trash.
3:54 PM
"I dunno."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:57 PM
I sigh. "How are you going to pass the time by yourself on a day like this?"
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She thinks about it for a moment. "Beer's the goal right now."
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 3:59 PM
Harriet bangs her head against the ground. Is this an externalization of what I really want? To be helpless? To be at anyone else's mercy? Harriet smashes her nose wide open.
3:59 PM
This is so fucked up. Why am I thinking this???
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 3:59 PM
"Won't you run out?"
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"I’ll get some at… The store."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:00 PM
"You know... I'm at a loss for ideas today."
4:00 PM
"How about we go together, and I'll 'foot' the bill?" (edited)
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"What?"
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:01 PM
"What?"
4:01 PM
"I can be generous."
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:02 PM
Okay, calm down. There's. An explanation for this, surely. Harriet begins to cry.
4:02 PM
Oh what the fuck.
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"I can afford beer."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:03 PM
"But you'll be wanting a lot, won't you?"
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"I can afford it. I’m the richest person in the whooooole universe."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:04 PM
"Rich, or drunk?"
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"Rich in drunkness."
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:09 PM
Still crying, snot smeared across her face, Harriet spasmodically begins to flop across the floor, attempting to make her way to where Marco and the girl are talking.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:10 PM
"Aren't you worried you might metaphorically drown in money?"
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"What?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:12 PM
Harriet begins to bang her head against the girl's chair, causing it to rattle.
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"Stop doing that…" She says this to Marco.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:16 PM
Harriet bangs more aggressively.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:18 PM
"...Ugh. Sorry about that."
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Harriet is unable to move.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:19 PM
"It'll be fine now."
4:20 PM
"By 'metaphorically drown in money', I mean 'die'."
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"What?"
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:23 PM
"As in, from overdrinking. That could kill you."
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"I’ll take my chances."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:24 PM
"You should be more careful with your life, you know. It has value."
4:25 PM
"A young woman like yourself shouldn't waste herself away like this."
4:25 PM
"Don't you think so?"
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"Are you flirtin' with me?"
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:27 PM
"...And what of it?"
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"I’m gonna slit your fucking… Throat."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:27 PM
I chuckle.
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She takes out a knife.
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:29 PM
From her position of stillness, Harriet mouthes "yeah!!!!!!!! kill him!!!"
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:30 PM
I frown. "Uh... hey!"
4:30 PM
I look in my pockets for anything usable as a weapon.
4:31 PM
"You should really... have a rest. That beer's taking its toll on you! Haha!"
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"…Coward." She chugs another beer.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:31 PM
"Hey! I'm not a coward! If you want a fight, I'll...!" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:32 PM
Harriet feels a surge of sudden remorse. Why would she say something like that? She's a good person, with zero pathologies whatsoever, and good people don't threaten violence against innocent men. Really, isn't she fulfilling a stereotype in her own right? Undue aggression towards men, hatred of her social status.. some real high-quality dykery, here.
4:32 PM
Harriet frowns. Why the fuck did she just think that.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:33 PM
"...Give you one! You know I will!" (edited)
4:33 PM
I awkwardly chew on some remaining food.
4:35 PM
I then get up and check the mini-kitchen. How much alcohol is there?
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There’s a full pack of beer, and an almost empty one.
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:43 PM
I grab the full pack and bring it to my table.
4:44 PM
I then grab a beer and start pretending to drink.
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"Thief."
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:45 PM
"Is there a problem? You're free to come over and take some."
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:45 PM
Harriet attempts to bite the girl's leg.
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She winces in pain. "Huh?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:55 PM
((It's 5:00 so I have to leave. If you'd like to continue the scene we can say that Harriet falls unconscious due to banging her head against the ground one too many times.))
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((Nah we can pause))
4:55 PM
((Funny session))
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Marco Gould 10/30/2022 4:56 PM
((Great session)) (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 10/30/2022 4:56 PM
((yeah))
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She winces in pain. "Huh?"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:05 PM
I put the beer down and look at her. "...Are you okay?"
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"I’m fine." She kicks at Harriet but it quite literally just goes through her.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:12 PM
((@Harriet Kadin….2!!!!!!!!!?))
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 1:16 PM
((sorry, was driving))
1:16 PM
Harriet stares down in disbelief before attempting to bite the girl again.
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The girl keeps trying to kick back at Harriet, but it continues to just phase through her.
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 1:17 PM
Harriet attempts to speak.
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Harriet can speak.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:19 PM
"Ugh. Are you sure you don't want to come sit next to me?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 1:21 PM
Harriet opens her mouth to talk, but is suddenly overwhelmed with a sensation of intense guilt again. Seriously, what is she doing, interfering with... whatever this is? And mentally calling her insipid, Harriet, that's pretty fucked. Pretty sure you should just lie down on the ground and curl up into a pile of garbage. Harriet begins crying again instead.
1:21 PM
Uh. What.
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"Stop hassling me!"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:23 PM
"is that a real word?"
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"Of course it is!"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:27 PM
"What does it mean?"
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"Harassing me!"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:33 PM
"Oh, I just thought, since you seemed so lonely by yourself, you... would... appreciate a conversation?"
1:34 PM
I sigh and start pretending to drink again.
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"Nah."
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 1:35 PM
Harriet laughs at him.
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This girl walks in.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:36 PM
I wave at her. "Good morning."
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"Oh, good. You 2 aren’t at each other's throats yet." The new girl.
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 1:41 PM
"HELP." Harriet says loudly.
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Neither of them react.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:41 PM
"What?" I glare at Harriet.
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"Well, you know… Whatever." The new girl sits next to Marco. "Let’s just avoid letting you 2 talk too much."
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:43 PM
I pout. "How low do you think of me?"
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((For Harriet purposes please remember that he has no face to pout with))
1:45 PM
"Uh, no clue yet, really." The new girl.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:46 PM
"...What's your name?"
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"Eryn." Eryn.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:52 PM
"What are you doing here today, Eryn?"
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"In what sense?" Eryn. (edited)
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:55 PM
"Well... it's rather empty here. Why aren't you with the others?"
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"They’re just getting Ha- Someone. Don’t worry about it. They’ll be here soon." Eryn. (edited)
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 1:58 PM
"Bah."
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"Why are you pretending to drink beer, by the way?" Eryn. (edited)
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:00 PM
"I- what? I'm not pretending!"
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"The can isn’t even open." Eryn. (edited)
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:04 PM
"Huh?" I look down at the can lid. "How the hell did you notice that?"
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"By looking at it?" Eryn.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:06 PM
"Whatever. I didn't want to be drunk. It messes with the mind, you know?"
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"Paranoid much?"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:09 PM
"How long until this 'Ha' arrives, anyway? I don't have much to waste my time away with here."
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:09 PM
Harriet attempts to knock the can over.
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"Should be here any second now." Eryn. The can is knocked over.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:12 PM
I pick up the can and throw it at the trash.
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((Roll))
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:15 PM
((11))
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It misses, and rolls away.
2:17 PM
Harriet crawls over and throws the can in the trash.
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:18 PM
"Oh for fuck's sake." Says Harriet.
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"…What?" Eryn. "Did that just… Move?"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:18 PM
"Nailed it."
2:19 PM
"Oh, that was probably the wind. Did you leave the door open?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:19 PM
Harriet shakes away the now-similar sensation of having her body taken over for nefarious purposes and attempts to crawl herself towards Marco. "Hey, asshole, have you considered acknowledging me?" She hisses, before slamming her face compulsively onto the table and beginning to bleed.
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No blood exits Harriet’s body.
2:20 PM
Despite the fact it obviously should.
2:20 PM
"What? No. What?" Eryn. "He’s like magically annoying." The girl.
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:20 PM
"That's weird," says Harriet dizzily, before slamming herself against the table again.
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Eryn gets up. "Okay, just… What the hell is happening?"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:21 PM
I chuckle. "...What's wrong?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:23 PM
Harriet crawls over to the trash can and tries to tip it over, then slaps herself for doing so.
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"Oh come on, you’re not blind, are you?" Eryn.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:26 PM
"It's just a bin. Maybe there's some weird setup in the floor."
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"How would that even work?" Eryn.
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:26 PM
Harriet begins throwing garbage everywhere. (edited)
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:29 PM
"Maybe... an electric bin, and some kind of suction technology?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:30 PM
Harriet grabs Eryn's legs and attempts to pull her to the ground.
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Harriet stops and tries to get inside the can. She somehow phases through the sides and is now headfirst in garbage.
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:31 PM
"WHAT."
2:32 PM
"Great metaphor, guys." Harriet says, icily. "Not on the nose at all, or anything."
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:32 PM
Shut up.
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((I can’t tell which way this message is read))
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:33 PM
((it's a normal thought))
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:34 PM
Harriet, once again, feels that horrible stirring of remorse. She's a really bad person, right? Infringing on someone else's sense of self like that. Really, in invisibly tormenting all of these people, she's proving herself no better than them. Then Harriet immediately wonders why the fuck she had that thought in the first place.
2:34 PM
Harriet attempts to remove the garbage from her person.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:35 PM
"Uh... what else could it be, anyway? A magic trash can?" (edited)
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Harriet can do this. "I dunno, that’s why I’m asking you." Eryn. (edited)
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:38 PM
I look at the beer drinker. "Ask her instead."
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:38 PM
Harriet drags herself into the corner to sulk.
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"She’s like… Insane." Eryn.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:41 PM
"Is she?"
2:41 PM
"Well, if anyone's going to have the right perspective on floating trash, it'll be an insane person."
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"No, no… I don’t think that’s true in any way."
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:41 PM
"I think it is true in any way."
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Eryn just stares at him dumbfounded for a moment.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:42 PM
I laugh.
2:44 PM
"Besides, she's drunk, so that might counter out the insanity."
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"Okay, I guess you’re just insane too." She left through another door.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:46 PM
"I am not!"
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"Are too." The girl.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:47 PM
"I'm saner than you."
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"That’s fair." The girl.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:50 PM
"Why would you think you're not sane?"
2:51 PM
"Insane people think they're sane."
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"I’m like… The least sane person ever. Mental illness full bingo, y'know?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 2:52 PM
"Cheers," says Harriet weakly.
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:53 PM
"You seem pretty lucid right now."
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"I’ll slice you up like a birthday cake, you fucking piece of shit…"
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:55 PM
"How?"
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"With a knife.”
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 2:57 PM
"But 'like a birthday cake'? I'm not shaped like a cake."
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"It’s a metaphor. Because those are cut a lot."
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Harriet Kadin 11/5/2022 3:00 PM
((hey, sorry, it's 3 so i gotta go. rlly sorry abt the short session today :/))
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((It was funny))
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Marco Gould 11/5/2022 3:00 PM
((yeah))
3:00 PM
((cya!))
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"It’s a metaphor. Because those are cut a lot."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:14 PM
Harriet groans and flops listlessly around like a beached fish.
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Marco Gould 11/19/2022 2:15 PM
"...But only to be eaten."
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"I don’t mind eating."
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Marco Gould 11/19/2022 2:21 PM
"Do you suppose I'd taste good?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:23 PM
"Holy shit, shut up."
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"Not really."
2:24 PM
Jeff Johnner and this guy suddenly enter the room. ((Channel split))
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-kadin
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Harriet wakes up in a bed, with a glass of water splashed onto her face.
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:25 PM
Harriet groans, rubbing water clumsily off herself. That.. was a really weird dream. She looks up to check her surroundings.
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"Are you finally awake?" Alexi holds the glass. Around them is a normal room, probably his apartment.
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:26 PM
"Yes. What happened?"
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"You passed out. For like 24 hours."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:29 PM
Oh shit. "Oh shit. What about my job, dude?!"
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"What did you want me to do!? Rush you to a hospital? I don’t need them assuming I did something to you! That was all you!"
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:34 PM
"Oh my god, is it that difficult for you to take any personal responsibility for your actions? You're the one who jerks me around in your insane schemes about - assassination attempts, or whatever the fuck, could you at least try to make my life a little less difficult??"
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"I gave you a bed! I'm not asking for you to get down on your dead knees and praise me, but you can at least quit pretending I haven’t done my fair share."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:44 PM
"I WAS UNCONSCIOUS. You know I have a more precarious medical situation than you - ugh, fuck. Whatever."
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"…Why was Sarah texting you?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:47 PM
Harriet blinks. Sarah had messaged her while she was asleep? Quickly, she scrambles for her phone.
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‘im free if you can ignore the weirdo im watching. wanna hang out again?' Sent a few minutes ago by Sarah. "Don’t ignore me." Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:52 PM
"yes of course!!!!" Harriet types quickly, sharp elation hitting her before she pauses, reconsiders, and rephrases it as "yeah sure. when?"
2:53 PM
"What do you want?" Harriet says, after putting her phone down.
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"Why are you talking to her? Do you just want to get one over on me? Oh, haha, Alexi said not to talk to her so I MUST race right over there like a fucking moron."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 2:58 PM
"Not everything is about you, oh my god. Have you ever like, thought about the fact that I'm a real person and not just an accessory to murder? Get over yourself."
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"So you just happen to start talking to the one person I told you not to talk to on the same day I told you not to? You really expect me to be believe that?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:02 PM
"She's my friend, you jerk. We're not messing with your plans, or anything. I'm just, you know, having a friendly relationship with another human being. Which I can do, by the way? Did you know I can do that?"
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"Honestly? No."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:07 PM
"Ha ha. Extremely funny. Can you stop being a control freak for a second?"
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"If you think you’re breaking new grounds by calling me a bad person, you’re not exactly shocking everyone. I choose to be pretty open about how awful I am, instead of sucking up to narcissistic sociopaths for their money."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:15 PM
Harriet grits her teeth. "Super sick burn. Sorry for being such an incompetent failure, I guess. Is that what you want me to do? Admit that I'm a useless piece of shit? Would that make you feel better about yourself? Because I can do that."
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"I don’t want your pity. I want you to get off your high horse/wheelchair and listen to what I say when I give you useful advice."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:19 PM
"Ok, but if I get out of my wheelchair, you have to carry me."
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"That’s exactly what I’m doing."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:24 PM
"Fine. What's your useful advice, immaculate one?"
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"Don’t talk to Sarah."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:27 PM
"Oh my god, fuck off??? You haven't even told me why."
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"Because she’s… She's dangerous. Don’t trust her further than you can throw her. …Which for you is much less than me."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:33 PM
"I'm.. gonna need you to be more specific than that. Can't you trust me?"
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"Not really. But the point is, there’s just… Something wrong with her. I’m not a psychiatrist, don’t expect me to have specific definitions."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:41 PM
"Okay, but.. she's my friend. I'm not just going to stop talking to her unless something serious happens."
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"Fine. You know who Team Nine is?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:44 PM
"N..o?"
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"YouTubers. The scummy kind apparently. Point is, look them up in the news. She did that."
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:49 PM
((hey, gonna stop here because i'm really tired [i love getting covid] and feel like i should get back to this when im less tired -_- hope it was alright))
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((I liked it. Good luck with the covid though))
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Harriet Kadin 11/19/2022 3:50 PM
((thanks!))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 12:56 PM
((Will likely be like 10 min late)) (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 2:05 PM
((Gonna be more like 20 sorryyy))
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 2:15 PM
((Ok just expect me at 2:30. Sorry, bunch of shit kept coming up))
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 2:41 PM
((ok, i am finally here))
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"YouTubers. The scummy kind apparently. Point is, look them up in the news. She did that."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:05 PM
Harriet pulls out her phone, and looks up Team Nine.
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There was a shootout yesterday at their headquarters. Unknown suspect.
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:08 PM
"What on earth?" She scrolls down further to see earlier news.
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Oh yeah The Elusive Sentasaurus also pops up as an on and off member. Not much else.
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:12 PM
"Is this about the shootout?" Harriet asks.
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"Yeah."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:16 PM
"Pardon me, but how is that... her fault?"
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"She’s the suspect. She shot them."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:18 PM
"Wait, what? It says here the suspect is unknown."
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"Shockingly, if this was public knowledge, you wouldn’t have been getting texts from her just now."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:21 PM
"Ok, then how the fuck do you know this?"
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"I just know."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:23 PM
"That's not a good answer!"
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"But it's what you're getting! Just stay away from her and we don't have any problems."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:36 PM
"Is it that difficult to be transparent with me? I know you think I'm a useless little shit to be jerked around on a leash but I want to know where this information is coming from. After all the shit you've pulled don't you think you owe me, like, the truth??"
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"I just told you the truth. You're welcome. You can start begging for my sources when you accomplish more than just passing out."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:43 PM
"I'm not going to stop talking to her. I won't tell her anything about.. any of this, I promise. But you can't just force me to cut off all contact with the one person on this burned-up shitheap rock that actually makes me like being here."
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"What, you think one girl is nice to you and suddenly you have to drop everything? You've managed to surround yourself with people who need you. Some who might even fall apart on the spot without you. You think anyone else is that lucky? You quit, and Carl begs you back as his secretary. I leave, and I might as well not exist to them. But oh no, keep throwing yourself a pity party and pretend you're just SOOOO miserable. The whole world hates you, that's why you get to have fucking ghost powers somehow! That's why the path to millions of dollars and a comfortable life just falls on your doorstep! So go ahead, pretend all of your worth as a person lies in fucking Sarah of all people. But you're only fooling yourself."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 3:57 PM
"Shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up, shut up! You don't understand anything about me or my life, you stupid rancid bitch. Carl could hire any vegetable from the retirement home and get exactly what he wants. You all treat me like meat on the dinner table, ready to slice and dice me and serve me for public consumption and that's what I am! That's what I always am! Pleading useless shit-for-brains that has to scrape out her guts on your altar! Smiling vapid whore! You want me to go along with your shit for the rest of my life. Fuck you!"
3:59 PM
Harriet, abruptly, hits herself in the face hard enough to bruise. Blood begins oozing from her nose. When she speaks, her voice is very quiet. "I am a public spectacle. I get it. I get it, I get it. I'm sorry. Playing pretend at being a person doesn't suit me, right?" (edited)
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"Oh my god, you're like an actual baby. How many pity parties can 1 woman throw for herself? We get it! You're sad! So is everyone! You don't see me crying like a little baby when I decide to hate myself. No, because I grew up! I live in the real world! Where adults live! Where we do what we have to do to get what we want! Sure, it fucking sucks up here, but at least we're being honest with ourselves! We don't need to pretend like the world is unfair to us specifically! Life is unfair! People are unfair! Get over yourself!" He sighed. "...You want me to be the big evil Alexi? You want to pretend I did all this? You want to hear the words from my mouth? Is that what you need to lie to yourself? Fine. I've got no problem being your personal strawman. You're my stupid brainless puppet. There. Now you can accept whatever delusion you've conjured up for yourself and shut the fuck up."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:25 PM
"Great." Says Harriet coldly. "I'm sure this will be a very mutually beneficial relationship."
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"Yeah. Great." She headed to the door. "I'll go get your chair. You're welcome."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:28 PM
"Fine."
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Harriet's phone rang.
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:31 PM
Harriet checks the caller ID.
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Carl Tucker.
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:32 PM
Harriet picks up. "Hello?"
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"Hiiiiiiii... Where are you? You... Uh... You didn't show up today." Carl. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:37 PM
Harriet exhales. "Hey, Carl. I'm really, really sorry. I had a small medical emergency. I'm doing better now, though." (edited)
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"Oh. Oh... Okay. Yeah, yeah... All good. Hahaha... Wow, for a moment there I thought you'd left me. That would... That would be so crazy, huh? Hahahaha! Wow! I'm really laughing at this thought!"
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:46 PM
Harriet's face crumples up with confusion. "I... guess it would be pretty crazy, huh? Anyways, I'll definitely be in tomorrow."
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"Good, good, good... Are you alone?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:50 PM
Harriet glances to the hallway. "...Not really. Do you want to call me back in a bit?"
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"Uh, you women are good with this stuff right? Like, uh, marriage."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:53 PM
What. "...Not at all, actually. Are you asking me for romantic advice?"
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"Just like... How do you women think? Divorce papers, that's like... That's a playful thing right? She's just joking? This hypothetical woman."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 4:58 PM
"No, I'm pretty sure the divorce papers are, uh, real."
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"..."
4:59 PM
"Huh."
4:59 PM
"How do I stop them?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 5:01 PM
"I think... if it's gotten to the point where she's serving divorce papers, this problem's probably beyond stopping. Do you... know why she wants a divorce?"
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"Well, uh... I may have ACCIDENTALLY said some things that COULD be interpreted as misogyny on the official account. But I've said way worse to her face, right? Surely this shouldn't make her love me less. The- The hypothetical woman, I mean."
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 5:08 PM
"Uh. Hypothetically, I think this woman.. probably reached the end of her rope, and can't stand being around someone who devalues her anymore. Because, like, what's the point in working f- being married to someone who doesn't treat you like a human being, right? Hypothetically."
5:09 PM
((it's 5 pm so i'm gonna stop here, good session today i think))
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((Alright see ya))
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((Alexi))
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Harriet Kadin 11/26/2022 8:02 PM
((Correct))
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((Saturday))
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"…Are you sure?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:07 PM
“Um.. pretty sure, yeah.”
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"But, uh… Don’t you think she would’ve left before? If it was that bad? And like, I’m not the worst person in the world. I’m one of the good ones, y’know? Surely this is… Uh, surely this is on her if anything?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:16 PM
"Uh, I think... the question of whether this is an easy division of blame is, up to you I guess." Harriet pauses, her hand trembling on the receiver. Would it.. make her a bad person, to enable him? She certainly wouldn't be fulfilling her respectable duties as a feminist loudmouth. Isn't this the sort of situation where you're supposed to say something meaningful? Do something meaningful? Doesn't she want to be the good guy? Harriet feels a ripple down her spine, like someone touching the small of her back. Isn't she tremendously sorry for thinking poorly of her boss like that? A good man, with a good heart, and nothing but a stirring #MeToo truther until the end. Okay, what the fuck. Unbidden, Harriet blurts out - "If you want to blame her, you can. I mean, if you think it would be best."
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"Yeah, yeah! Good! Let’s blame her. Gone with her, haha… I didn’t need… What, half my money? Pfft, what a stupid thing to worry about… Hahaha… Let’s throw the blame on her. I like that! I like that… Yeah!" He lets out a painfully uncomfortable laugh. "Yup, yup… All her fault. Can you believe that girl on the subway this morning told me it was possible to be happy just from existing? No, no, no… You gotta grind it up to be as good as me. You gotta hustle! I’m… I’m a hustler! I make it work, you know? So what if the people hate me? They’re… They’re just jealous. …You’re not jealous, are you? You’re not. Obviously. Thank the wheelchair for giving you humility and all that, you would not believe how entitled some of these women are. Haha… No really, you’re not jealous right?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:26 PM
"No!" Says Harriet anxiously. "Of course not. I'd never be. Not of your life, not of your success, not of your evident comfort in your station. I'm sorry you're being hassled by this, uh... gold digger."
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Alexi has stopped in their tracks and is now just staring at Harriet in utter disgust. "Yeah! Yeah! That’s… Thats the spirit. Yay me. Pfft, I can’t… I can’t even imagine the kind of cruel person who only becomes successful through someone who shares their last name. What a terrible and really specific incident only my wife is guilty of. I can’t name one other person this applies to. Guess that just means I’m surrounding myself with really useful people, huh? You- You’re uh, you’re great! Good job! That’s- That’s one really strong compliment game! Not many people, are uh, are as good at self-awareness. Y’know, knowing their limits. I’m great at that, personally. Because I have no limits. But you, uh… You’re great. Really great. You know, because you do have limits. So knowing them is pretty special! In its own distinct but a little worse way from how I’m great."
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:34 PM
"Um. Thank.. you? I'm really good at, uh. Knowing my limits. And having limits. There are so many things that I want to say all the time, and I never do! And I'm glad we both know. Not to say these things."' (edited)
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"Yeah, yeah, for sure. Great job! Gold star. One of the many in my own personal collection I already have." Carl. "Hang up the fucking phone, Harriet." Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:42 PM
"Um, listen, Carl, this has been a great talk, but maybe we should... wrap this up?"
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"…You’re leaving me? I thought, uh… We were having a moment there, y’know?" Carl. "Don’t politely hang up on him! Just flush him, you fucking moron!" Alexi stormed up to Harriet and tried to grab the phone.
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:47 PM
"Ah! Uh, no, Carl, I'm not - I wouldn't want to leave you, because that sucks and I wouldn't want to be left behind either - It's just - not a great time?? But I would never abandon you! Just. Could we. Continue it later-" Harriet begins trying to pry Alexi off her. (edited)
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:52 PM
((ive never rolled before what do i do)) (edited)
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((/r then take the bot command and add 1d20))
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DiceParser BOT 12/3/2022 2:53 PM
# 15 Details:[1d20 (15)]
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((In the #dice channel. But sure I’ll use this one this time))
2:56 PM
Harriet keeps the phone. "Yeah, later… Yeah, okay sure. I’m busy too, y'know? Did you know the boss called me cool? The old one? That’s… I think that’s pretty impressive. Since he’s all like stoic and stuff. I have work, too! Yeah! I’m hanging up first because I’m leaving you right now and not the other way around." He hung up.
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 2:58 PM
Harriet exhales. "Hhholy shit."
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"What the fuck was that?" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 3:05 PM
"Carl." Says Harriet quietly. "He's, uh... needy. Kind of like a baby, you know? I don't think he quite gets the whole 'other people exist that aren't me' thing, yet."
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"Yeah. So why the hell do you suck up to him like that? I tell you to do anything, you throw a fit like a fucking baby. He tells you to do anything, you start coddling him like a fucking baby."
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 3:09 PM
"Aren't I supposed to be your man on the inside or whatever the fuck? Isn't this a better way to go about it than antagonizing him?"
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"Well, yeah, but… Why does he get it nicer than me? I’m the one busting my ass to get you more than this shitty job. So what if it’s for me? You think he’s done anything even accidentally good for you?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 3:20 PM
"Because you keep treating me like shit! I can't - you don't get it. Carl is just. So pathetic. And what am I supposed to do in the face of that?? He doesn't fight back, he doesn't do anything. He just sits there and absorbs it. I heard him the other day - just listening to his boss berate him - and he just soaked it up like a fucking sponge, all nodding, nodding, nodding. It's really disgusting. Shouldn't I be proud that Carl calls me up to ask me advice? That he thinks I'm good at something? That his opinion of himself is entirely reliant on me affirming him? He's like a fucking feeble Victorian orphan boy on the streets just existing to quiver and sob and can't I just relish in that a bit? That he's so, so, so disgusting?" (edited)
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"I treat you just fine! You’re the one crying like a little baby when I push back even slightly! He tried to throw you down a fucking staircase! Who cares if he’s having the most pathetic mental breakdown I’ve ever seen, you don’t get to pretend anything I’ve done is worse than that!"
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 3:34 PM
"Oh my god, do you seriously not get it? You're not a good person, and I don't like you. And I don't care if Carl isn't a good person either, because at least he's behaving the way he's supposed to. This isn't justice or anything! I wanted this to be a movement - a statement - something with real energy in it! I wanted to feel like I was carving up the world into a new shape like fucking clay! And you're - so selfish, and people like us aren't supposed to be."
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"Of course I’m not a good person. I’m not trying to hide it. Everyone’s shitty, I just maintain the healthy level of self-hatred required to not think I’m above it all. Of course I have aspirations. Of course I have desires! Everyone does! You do too, you narcissistic bitch! I’m just open about it." She takes a moment to catch her breath. "And people like us? What the fuck? I can’t even tell what level of bigotry you’re operating on right now."
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 3:50 PM
"I'm just being honest! You want to know why I suck up to Carl? Because it's like there's a fucking bomb in my head, tick tick tick, and the only way to stop the breaks on this massive malfunctioning engine is to suck up, right? To play possum, right? It's like someone - wants me to be this demure, effacing mess and I'm not a strong enough person to not listen. And I hate you, and I'm better than you because I do what I'm told, and I'm a bad person because sometimes I have thoughts that I'm not supposed to have, right? Don't fuck with me, we know we're at the same intersection of deformed little freak, and -" Harriet stops. Her head snaps down, and her bangs fall over her eyes, obscuring them. When her face moves back up, it is blank - unclouded - her eyes dry. The lights are off, and no one is home. She is simply not there. "I'm not interested in having this conversation anymore." Harriet says emotionlessly. (edited)
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Alexi gives Harriet the most uncomfortable look, and slowly sits on the bed. "I get it. There was a time where all I could do was follow what I was told and thank them for giving me nothing in return. I kind of thought I owed them a debt, I guess. I’d be a bad person to refuse the people who brought me into this world. That was the idea. But then I asked myself, what’s so bad about being a bad person? Letting other people live my life for me, what did that serve me? I’d rather be the worst person on earth than be you, Harriet. Now, what do you rather? Thinking you’re better than me, or being someone. An actual person. Not glorified furniture. Someone who exists for more than the comfort of a spoiled child. What’s he ever done to deserve you? Been born with all that wealth and power?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 4:04 PM
((extremely good conversational tract we're on but i AM gonna end it right now because this is a conversation that needs my full attention and focus. i think we made good progress tho))
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((Okay i really need a makeup session then because the early finishers are going to kill me))
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Harriet Kadin 12/3/2022 4:09 PM
((ok im sorry its just that more than 2 hours a day is not great for my attention span and the reason i end them early is because i think the things i write and the choices i make will be worse the longer i go on. i will try to make time for another one))
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((I'm sure you'd do fine))
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((Did time ever wind up being made))
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Harriet Kadin 12/7/2022 7:41 PM
((no. i am busy))
7:41 PM
((i will lyk if it is))
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((Alright))
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Alexi gives Harriet the most uncomfortable look, and slowly sits on the bed. "I get it. There was a time where all I could do was follow what I was told and thank them for giving me nothing in return. I kind of thought I owed them a debt, I guess. I’d be a bad person to refuse the people who brought me into this world. That was the idea. But then I asked myself, what’s so bad about being a bad person? Letting other people live my life for me, what did that serve me? I’d rather be the worst person on earth than be you, Harriet. Now, what do you rather? Thinking you’re better than me, or being someone. An actual person. Not glorified furniture. Someone who exists for more than the comfort of a spoiled child. What’s he ever done to deserve you? Been born with all that wealth and power?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 2:08 PM
Harriet flinches. "I distinctly remembering saying I don't want to have this conversation anymore."
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"Oh, come on! Are you serious? I just opened up to you! What the hell do you want from me?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 2:17 PM
"Listen, it's not that I don't appreciate the emotional honesty - I do! I seriously do, and I'm glad that you're actually being genuine. But I'm not - allowed to want things, okay? I'm going to keep comforting him and I'm going to swindle him out of his god damn money like you want me to and isn't that enough praxis?? Alright????"
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"God, you’re insufferable. Not allowed to- Not allowed-???? Fuck you." She got up and left. "Fuck you, you can sleep here tonight if you’re not allowed to want this wheelchair."
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 2:22 PM
"What the fuck? What's wrong with you? I just said I'm doing what you want! Shouldn't that make you happy?"
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"Doing what I want isn’t a good thing." He shut the door.
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 2:30 PM
"Fuck." Harriet exhales, running her hand through her hair. Unwillingly, her eyes begin to fill with angry tears. "Fuck!" She says again. "What am I going to do?"
2:35 PM
Harriet sighs and checks her phone.
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'smth came up sorry. maybe tomorrow?' Sarah responded. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 2:47 PM
Oh shoot. Does this mean Sarah hates her? It has to, right? Why else would she cancel? Fuck fuck fuck. What did she do wrong?
2:47 PM
"np lol" Harriet texts back.
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Sarah doesn't reply.
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 2:53 PM
Harriet sighs and throws her head back. Her eyes are itching. She wonders, bitterly, what she's done to deserve this - the endless, endless fucking powerlessness. This casual, almost playful dissemination, always bifurcated, always stuck between a rock and a hard place, one hundred and twenty pounds of raw meat. What a terrible story.
2:53 PM
"Corpse Husband?" She whispers. Her throat is dry.
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Marco Gould's ghostly form does not appear.
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 2:56 PM
Harriet squeezes her eyes shut. Right. Okay. Everyone fucking leaves, then. That's no problem. No problem at all.
2:56 PM
"Alexi, if you don't let me out of this bed right fucking now, I'm calling the cops." She says, her voice cracking on "cops."
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No response.
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 3:07 PM
"Fucking hell." Harriet exhales. She closes her eyes. Feels another wave of exhaustion move sluggishly over her. She'd been out for an entire day, but she's more tired than ever.
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Harriet goes to sleep. ((The chapter ends))
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7: Associated Gangsters
👎 3
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Harriet wakes back up in that bed the next morning. She also awakens in Marco Gould's room. She can now switch at will between these 2 forms.
3:21 PM
Only one at a time, however.
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 3:26 PM
Harriet screams and immediately falls out of bed.
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Alexi opens the door. They seem to be in a better mood at least. "You're up."
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 3:34 PM
Harriet blinks groggily up at them - and then the anger returns, and with a sharp, burning clarity. How dare he. How dare he. "What on earth is wrong with you?!" Harriet yells.
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"A lot of things! I was... I was mad, okay! People do stupid things when they're angry! "
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 3:40 PM
"Hey, here's a little hint. If you want people to be nice to you - to tolerate your shit, even when you fuck up over and over and over - to coddle you, to tell you you're doing a good job, to spoil you endlessly - don't do that shit. Now or ever." Harriet begins breathing quickly. "Is it just that you like it when I'm vulnerable? When you get to call the shots? Congrats on the power trip."
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"I don't want to be coddled by you. But yes, congratulations on pointing out how awful and evil I am. Like I keep telling you, I know." She brought the wheelchair to Harriet. "But I'm tired of acting like I owe society another 'good' person."
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 3:52 PM
Harriet climbs into the wheelchair clumsily and relaxes infinitesimally when she realizes her autonomy is back. "Do that again and I'm out. I'm serious. I'll call the cops."
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"Fine! But was it really so bad to use this bed? Doesn't it feel nice to not sleep alone for once?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/10/2022 4:03 PM
((hey im really sorry but im gonna have to stop here something unexpected came up))
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((Alright see ya))
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((Saturday))
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"Fine! But was it really so bad to use this bed? Doesn't it feel nice to not sleep alone for once?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:05 PM
"Yeah, like you would know."
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"I would, yeah." He pulls out Harriet’s phone from their pocket. "Also, here. Before you scream at me more. In my defence someone clearly took Sarah’s too."
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:17 PM
Harriet exhales sharply, but takes the phone without a word. She quickly checks to see if anyone's messaged her overnight. (edited)
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Alexi and The Elusive Sentasaurus/Nathan Smith/Bob(he uses all 3 names throughout the conversation) argued a few minutes ago through your and Sarah’s phone.
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:24 PM
Harriet checks the messages.
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:33 PM
"Jesus, Alexi. Are you always this combative? Wait, don't answer that."
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She rolls his eyes.
2:35 PM
"Moving on. I’m gonna go get one of those gangsters for my part of the plan today. I just need you to do something."
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:36 PM
"What is it?"
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"I need you to get into Carl's house and get something. Use your ghost or something, I dunno… The point is he’s stupid and he’ll trust you."
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:42 PM
"Wait, seriously? Like... break in?"
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"No, just get him to invite you in. Isn’t the whole point of sucking up to him to use him?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:47 PM
"I.. yeah. That's true. Wait, shit, what day is it? Do I have work today?"
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"It’s Sunday. And who cares? You’re gonna be with your boss either way, aren’t you?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:53 PM
"I just figured it'd be easy to start a dialogue if I had to see him in a professional context, is all. How am I supposed to invite myself over to his house on a Sunday?" (edited)
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"Not my problem." They pause. "Honestly, the less I think about it the better. I wouldn’t be caught dead next to that guy's house."
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 2:57 PM
Harriet exhales and flops back in her chair. When she speaks her voice wavers - tremulous, uncertain. "Could you... leave me alone for a minute? I have to think about some things."
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"I didn’t even tell you what you were stealing." She moves toward the door.
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 3:02 PM
"Okay, fine, tell me what I'm stealing first."
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"It’s… a deed. Braun Fishery."
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 3:06 PM
"Why the fuck do we need a deed to a Fishery?"
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"It’s… Look, don’t worry about it. If he doesn’t have it, things will get annoying. I just really need that deed."
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 3:10 PM
"Okay, fine. Would it be in, like, his office?"
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"How should I know?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 3:17 PM
"Ugh, whatever, nevermind. Can you go now?"
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He left.
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2022 3:23 PM
Harriet breathes quietly and closes her eyes. She wills herself to Marco Gould's room.
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Harriet finds herself next to Marco as he bleeds out from his leg in front of Kerloe fishery. Inside the fishery is the red haired guy from the last time she used this body, and Hav Kerloe. Though nothing about the inside of the building, makes it’s layout discernible as it has largely been blown to ash. ((End session because they left lmao))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:18 PM
Harriet takes in her surroundings. "Oh shit," she says, before attempting to rush over to Marco, who was - she noticed - bleeding a lot more than anyone should be bleeding.
12:18 PM
Harriet tries to remember if her legs work in this form.
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They do not.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:19 PM
Harriet flops on the ground and crawls towards the bleeding man.
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"W-what? Is that... Harriet?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:23 PM
"Yes!!! Oh my god, oh my god, what did you do?!?"
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"I got shot by a maniac!" (edited)
12:24 PM
"Agh! Help me!"
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:25 PM
"Okay, well, I can't exactly carry you out!! Do you have a phone? I'm going to call 911." (edited)
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"Phone? No!"
12:26 PM
"Can you see a payphone around here?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:27 PM
Harriet scans her surroundings desperately. Her eyes fall on the red-haired man.
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He’s in the store with Hav right now.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:30 PM
Harriet checks to see if there's a payphone anywhere.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:32 PM
((9))
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Harriet does not find a payphone.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:34 PM
"Shit." Harriet rubs at her face roughly, then checks to see if she has a phone on her.
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She does not.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:35 PM
"I'm out of ideas." Says Harriet.
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I look around for a wheelchair.
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Harriet's wheelchair is still there.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:37 PM
Harriet begins crawling towards her wheelchair and attempts to pull herself into it.
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This happens.
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I also try to crawl towards the wheelchair and get on it.
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Harriet suddenly tries to get as far from the wheelchair as possible. (edited)
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((I fucking love hartley kaydin))
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((I hate you))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:41 PM
"What the fuck?" Says Harriet. "That's mine, you dick!"
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"I need it more than you do!"
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??? is on the wheelchair.
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I look around the street for any other visible stores or venues.
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The place seems pretty empty right now.
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"Aaaagh."
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:43 PM
From the floor, Harriet groans.
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I try to operate the wheelchair and make my way into the fishery.
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Harriet is forced to follow after him.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:46 PM
Harriet's eyes start watering as she pulls herself, on her hands and knees, across the rough ground. Cuts open up on her hands.
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"What the hell?" The red haired man turns to ???.
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"Ghhh..."
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 12:58 PM
"Can he hear me?" Harriet says.
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No one reacts.
12:59 PM
Harriet is suddenly given the urge to trip the red haired man, whom she intuitively knows is named Gordon now for some reason.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:01 PM
I run my wheelchair into Gordon.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:01 PM
Harriet grabs Gordon's ankle.
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Gordon falls over completely. "Ow!"
1:04 PM
"Please do not fight." Hav.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:04 PM
"I've been fucking shot! That man is a monster!"
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Harriet tries to grab Gordon's gun and give it to ???.
1:05 PM
"You tried to stab me first! It’s not like I want to kill you, or anything!" Gordon.
1:06 PM
"Could you two go somewhere else, if you insist on fighting?" Hav.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:06 PM
"I had to! I had no other choice!"
1:07 PM
((does harriet have to roll or. ?))
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((I was waiting for the live onnie reaction))
1:10 PM
"How the hell did you have to? You’re flying through the air somehow, you could just head to a hospital or back to base." Gordon.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:10 PM
((sorry i just expected that because you wrote it there would be a followup))
1:10 PM
"What are we talking about," Harriet groans.
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((The follow up would be you, no? Roll ig))
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:11 PM
"A hospital? How close do you think a hospital is?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:12 PM
((I wasn't sure what the procedure would be if you were controlling my actions but I'll roll))
1:13 PM
((11))
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Gordon keeps the gun.
1:14 PM
"…What the hell is going on?" Gordon.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:14 PM
I step on the gun and try to then kick it away.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:15 PM
Harriet attempts to bite Gordon's ankle in hopes of him acknowledging her existence.
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((Roll to pichuis))
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:15 PM
((3 to pichuis))
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"Ghrk!" Gordon tries to kick back at Harriet but it just goes through her.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:16 PM
"Fuck," Harriet swears.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:16 PM
"Call 911, Hav!"
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"Don’t!" Gordon.
1:21 PM
Hav does not.
1:22 PM
Gordon gets back up and aims his gun at ???. "Drop this now. Don't make me shoot twice." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:24 PM
"Holy shit," Harriet says, and attempts to tackle Gordon at the waist.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:25 PM
((nat 1))
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Harriet goes right through him and falls flat on her face.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:27 PM
"Ow." Harriet groans.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:29 PM
"..."
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This person walks into the store with a gun. "Sorry about whatever knockoff fight club you're running, but I'm gonna need the hovering corpse and the guy with the deader face to drop their magic and gun."
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:32 PM
"What." Says Harriet.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:33 PM
"What?"
1:33 PM
"I don't have a gun, you moron!"
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"I was obviously talking about the other one." The new person. "Not a chance." Gordon.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:34 PM
"You're being very antagonistic towards this nice person who's trying to help you not get murdered," says Harriet, before slamming her face into the concrete again.
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No one reacts to Harriet.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:35 PM
"What are you talking about?"
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Harriet tries to disarm Gordon again. ((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:36 PM
((8))
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"Gordon Joapajann. I can use more insulting nicknames if needed." The new person. "We'll be fine, I think." Gordon.
1:38 PM
As Harriet tries to pull the gun away from Gordon, the new person uses the opening to fire a bullet into Gordon's shoulder. Both lose the gun, which scatters across the floor.
1:39 PM
"Cool. That handles that, then. Now you stand normally." The new person points their gun at ???.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:40 PM
"I can't. I was shot in the leg!"
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The new person laughs.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:41 PM
"Who the hell are you, anyway?"
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"Just some guy/gal/thing. Don't worry about it too much." The new person.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:46 PM
Harriet, previously groping in the dark, finally opens her eyes fully. "...Alexi? What the fuck?"
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((Mvdy has to leave again sorry))
1:49 PM
((He says he'll be back soon but i assume you will have to leave before then or something?))
1:50 PM
((NEVERmind we have a bit more time apparently. I love communication it's so not annoying))
1:50 PM
'Alexi' does not react.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:50 PM
((Me too I communicate constantly))
1:50 PM
"Then call 911, just some guy/gal/thing!"
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She holds back a laugh. "That's a really weird time to laugh." Gordon.
1:52 PM
"Would you like to order something?" Hav.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 1:53 PM
"Alexi, god damn it, I know you can hear me. You can hear me, you can hear me, you promised you wouldn't leave me alone and helpless again, whimpering in my own shit like an invalid, please..." Harriet devolves into strained, incoherent mumbling, her forehead pressed against the ground.
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No reaction.
1:56 PM
"Okay, I'll be taking Gordon now. You two can stay back here and argue, or whatever." Alexi
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 1:57 PM
"...Uh... thank you, just."
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"Thank you for the help, officer." Hav.
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 2:01 PM
"Will someone please tell me I'm real? Come on, Alexi. I look like an agent of moral responsibility, right? I look like I could change the world. Marco? Gordon? Alexi? Anyone?"
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Gordon looks back at the gun for a moment. "You don't understand. This man is much more unhinged than I am. You can't leave these 2 together." Gordon. "For the sake of my partner, I think I'll avoid pointlessly shooting people on the word of gangsters. Her conscience is really annoying, trust me." Alexi.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 2:02 PM
"I am not unhinged. I am normal."
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"Correct." Hav.
2:06 PM
"Well, you literally don't have a face and that guy just assumed I was a cop. I don't really doubt the insane part." Alexi "I'm more trustworthy than him, by your standards. He's a gangster too, but a loose cannon. Just get him away from here and I'll comply." Gordon.
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 2:07 PM
"How am I a 'loose cannon'? I don't plan to hurt anyone here. I only attacked you because you suddenly attacked me for no real reason."
2:07 PM
"You're insane! If I'm insane, you're fifty hundred times as insane as me!"
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"I don't particularly care what lunatics do. They can go kill each other as soon as I leave, I don't mind." Alexi turns to ???. "Also, for the record, you're not denying the gangster part?" (edited)
2:11 PM
((Me when I can type words))
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 2:12 PM
"I'm... yes, I'm a gangster! But a normal one!"
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"Ah, of course. The sane variety of organized crime. Do you guys hand out flowers to all the nice boys and girls?" Alexi. "What on earth are you talking about?" Gordon isn't amused.
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Ehn/PC
((Mvdy has to leave again sorry))
((Okay this is true now))
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((Are you still available, mvdy is back))
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Marco Gould 12/21/2022 3:28 PM
((I am))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2022 4:03 PM
((I’m not, sorry))
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((Fair))
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Like Gordon, Hav too is unamused.
2:04 PM
"I’m saying I don’t really intend to debate sanity with a mobsters. Especially when they wear serial killer masks, or whatever that is." Alexi.
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 2:20 PM
"Then just get the one who brought it up out of here!" (edited)
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"I feel like you missed the part where I was mocking you." Alexi.
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 2:22 PM
"What?"
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"The- Whatever. Look, come this way, Gordon." Alexi. Gordon runs for the gun.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:26 PM
Harriet scrambles for the gun in turn.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:28 PM
((15))
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Harriet's got the gun.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:30 PM
Harriet attempts to shove it in her jacket and crawl away. (edited)
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 2:31 PM
"..."
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"I... I don't even... What?" Alexi. "Again?" Gordon. "Wait, does one of you also have the Harriet thing? I guess that's a fairly meaningless thing to say, but..." Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:32 PM
"The WHAT." Says Harriet.
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 2:39 PM
"No?"
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"The like... Invisible magic ghost. Look, it sounds dumb out loud but that gun is just floating and- Oh, whatever. Forget I said anything. Let's just do this instead of doing whatever this is." Alexi. "...Invisible magic ghost? Are all of you cursed with lunacy?" Gordon.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:44 PM
Harriet shoots directly at the ground. (edited)
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 2:44 PM
"Why would you call a ghost 'the Harriet thing'?"
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"Because Harriet also had a- Oh, whatever. That's not the point. The things I am saying are perfectly normal in context. Don't lump me in with whatever the hell you guys have going on." Alexi.
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 2:48 PM
"Okay."
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:49 PM
Harriet waves the gun frantically in the air to get someone to notice her.
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"Don't 'okay' me! If you're gonna judge me, at least be honest about it!" Alexi.
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 2:50 PM
"Judge you for... what?"
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"Oh, yeah! Go ahead. Play dumb, you certainly have the looks for it. I assume. I didn't really have time to research whoever you are. And yes, potential ghost, I see your threat! Unfortunately I also have a gun, and 1/3 chance to get your owner if you try to shoot so don't get stupid." Alexi.
2:54 PM
Harriet drops the gun.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:56 PM
"Fuck," Harriet swears, and goes for the gun again.
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Gordon also goes for it. ((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 2:58 PM
((7))
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Harriet's got the gun.
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Marco Gould 1/21/2023 3:00 PM
"Why do you keep standing around while he keeps trying to get that thing?"
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"Okay, this is just getting reaaaaaally annoying." A feminine voice comes from nearby.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 3:00 PM
Harriet spontaneously begins crying. What is she thinking, holding a gun? Does she think she deserves it? She should honestly probably stick it in her mouth and pull the trigger at this fucking point. She throws it away as far as she can.
3:00 PM
"What the hell," says Harriet.
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The gun flies through the air, and hits the suit of the elusive sentasaurus in the face as it flies in through the window. ((Channel split))
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As the suit comes in through the window, Harriet locks eyes with a white cat. She wakes back up in her original body now.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 3:04 PM
Harriet rubs her head and groans. "What the hell?"
3:07 PM
"What time is it?"
3:12 PM
She checks her phone.
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Harriet's wasted a few hours on that.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 3:22 PM
Harriet groans. "I should probably text Carl."
3:24 PM
She opens up her texts, and carefully composes a message. "Hey Carl! Sorry I wasn't able to keep talking to you yesterday. I just got busy. But I definitely didn't mean to abandon you! Do you want me to, idk, go over to your house and talk about it with you some more?"
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Carl responds a rapid fire string of messages before Harriet can catch up to any of them. 'lol maybe you should take me out to dinner first' 'like because you said going to my house lol' 'like. that was the joke' 'really cool and clever jokes aside you would like obviously be way under my price range' 'who even needs a non-millionaire gf am i right' 'ig if theyre independent millionaires theyd probably like have a massive ego and not respect me or something' 'women right' 'but like the whole point of women is for them to listen so like whats the point lol' 'probably not even any millionaire women i didnt check' 'whoops there goes cancel culture for not fact checking in tiem! like what will the sjws go after me for next right' 'im all for womens rights, just not there wrongs lol' 'and they have a loooot of wrongs lmao' 'youre still here right you didnt leave or something' 'you stopped replying so im just making sure' 'hi are you there harriet' 'dont leave me on read im like literally your boss' 'harriet' 'harriet' 'harriet' 'respond' 'harriet'
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 3:36 PM
"Hi, Carl. You sound stressed." She texts back.
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'ugh, you women look too deeply into everything' 'i can say that and its not sexist actually' 'ive talked to like 2 women recently, not even counting my wife' 'one of them is you actually' 'dont get jealous i talked to another woman thats just the way of an alpha male lol' 'bet i could talk to 3 if i wanted' 'but like women are so annoying usually' 'feminism really taught you girls the wrong lesson' 'its MANkind for a reason' 'were the big dogs and youre like. little cats' 'i assume idk i havent seen any cats maybe theyre cool too' 'you ever see a cat? what are they like' 'harrietttttt answer' 'harriet' 'harriet' (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 3:44 PM
"I think cats are very cute. Listen, Carl, I know you're an alpha - I'm not disputing that, I know you're very funny and interesting and everything and I laugh at all of your jokes - but. Do you need help?"
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'nah me?' 'i never need help' 'ever' 'soon im gonna get a certificate for it from therapey too' 'no more doubting carl tucker ever again' 'ever ever ever' 'ever' 'like put a few more evers in there' 'you can visit me if you want im not saying no or anything' 'but like its obvious im helping you' 'probably just want to rip off my home design' 'i didnt actually pick it tho that was just my wife' 'probably sucks too lmaoooooo' 'women have such terrible design sense you know' 'all rooms should be pure white who needs more' 'like my star wars you know' 'i never saw the movies but they put like a bunch of forced diversity in it apparently' 'its like minorities are so obsessed with getting where they dont belong' 'at least you get that youre never gonna go anywhere in life' 'probably just the wheelchair though' 'they should break more women's legs lol'
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 3:53 PM
"Great one, Carl." She texts back, her face audibly grimacing. It's fine. You just need to chat him up for a bit and then somehow steal those files. It'll be easy. "I'll be over in a few minutes. That cool with you?"
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'uh yeah sure' 'ill be late though' 'problems with the boss' 'spare key is under the door mat if you can somehow reach that from your wheelchair' He then posts an address. He mistyped the number, but you already know where he lives anyway.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:05 PM
"Oh thank god," Harriet exhales, and immediately leaves to get in her car and drive to Carl's house.
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Harriet arrives. It's a normal looking place.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:14 PM
She parks her car in front of his house and wheels herself to the door. The front steps loom intimidatingly in front of her.
4:15 PM
She attempts to reach the door mat from next to the stairwell.
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There is no doormat.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:16 PM
"The hell?" Harriet frowns. She texts Carl quickly. "You don't have a doormat?"
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No reply.
4:23 PM
Corpse Husband appears from the other side of the door, and lifts up the interior doormat.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:24 PM
Harriet waits patiently for him to scoot the key beneath the door.
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Corpse Husband unlocks and opens the door, and then places the key where a doormat should sensibly be.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:26 PM
"Thanks," Harriet whispers, and then realizes she still doesn't have a way to get up the stairs. "Fuck."
4:27 PM
"Corpse Husband, could you, kind of, like... pick the wheelchair up and place it in front of the door? Are you strong enough to do that?"
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Corpse Husband does this.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:31 PM
"Thanks," she says gratefully, and unlocks the door. She wheels herself in, and examines his house.
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It has that old person style furnishing, where everything is floral pattern wallpaper. The place seems mostly clean, but you can see that the more Carl-relevant spaces have recently become messy.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:36 PM
Harriet looks around for an office, or any other place where Carl might store important documents.
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There's a locked room that looks like an office.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:39 PM
"Corpse Husband, could you open this from the inside?"
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Corpse Husband does this. The room is indeed an office, but looking for anything in here sounds like an impossible chore. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:41 PM
Harriet frowns. She scans the room for any compartments, suspiciously-labeled papers, or anything else that stands out.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:43 PM
((16))
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Nothing.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:44 PM
((how high of a skill check is required for that lmao))
4:44 PM
Harriet sighs. She decides to check his bedroom next, and rolls herself to it.
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It's a similar experience. ((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:47 PM
((5))
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Nothing.
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:51 PM
Harriet pulls out her phone and begins to text Alexi. "I have no idea where these papers are supposed to be."
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'does he have an office or anything?'
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:54 PM
"Yes and it's filled with so much shit, it's a nightmare in there"
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'well keep searching until youre sure if its there'
4:55 PM
'btw apparently there are more people than you with a ghost'
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Harriet Kadin 1/21/2023 4:58 PM
Yeah, no shit, I was there, Harriet thinks. "Ok"
4:58 PM
((been 3 hrs so i'm stopping here))
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((Alright see ya))
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((No session))
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Harriet Kadin 1/25/2023 5:53 PM
((real))
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((Saturday))
5:21 PM
((Actually wait no I lied nvm))
5:21 PM
((I still need to get someone out of the way before you))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 1:24 PM
((hey jsyk i’ll have to leave at like 4))
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Harriet is in Carl's home office.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:05 PM
Harriet decides to check all the cabinets and see if they have labels.
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They’re all unlabelled.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:05 PM
Harriet tries to force a cabinet open.
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It opens.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:08 PM
Harriet checks the cabinet for anything that looks relevant
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Nothing.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:10 PM
Harriet tries to think very hard about where a man like Carl would keep something important.
2:13 PM
Harriet sighs, and pulls out her phone. No need to be subtle about this. Carl's brain is made out of pudding. She begins to text him - "Carl, I'm trying to think of a good place to put something important, but I can't figure anything out. If you had something important - like a deed to some location - where would you put it? I could really use your advice, considering how clever you are."
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He somehow doesn’t respond.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:15 PM
Fuck, Harriet swears. She texts Alexi again - "I have no idea where this thing is."
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Alexi also doesn’t reply somehow. Going great.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:18 PM
((you're really making this easy for me huh))
2:18 PM
"Corpse Husband, do you have any ideas?" Harriet says dejectedly.
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Corpse Husband just starts searching everywhere.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:21 PM
"Thanks, Corpse Husband," Harriet says warily, and puts her head in her hands. The urge to give up is overwhelming.
2:23 PM
Harriet waits to see if Corpse Husband finds anything.
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It eventually becomes clear that it’s just not in this building.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:27 PM
"It's definitely not in here," Harriet texts Alexi irritatedly, and wheels herself out, the irritation of a wasted task (and wasted sucking-up to Carl) washing over her. Fuck. Fuck! How useless is she, that she can't do this one little thing that Alexi requested of her? How disgusting?
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The sound of the front door opening is suddenly heard. "Uhhhh- Hello?" Carl's here.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:31 PM
"Oh shit," Harriet mutters, and wheels herself to the living room to pretend she's been waiting for him all this time.
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He enters the living room as she does and looks around. "Didn’t you make me, like… Supper or something?"
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:37 PM
"Uh... no. Sorry, I didn't think to do that... and uh," She fusses around for an excuse - "I couldn't reach your cutlery drawer."
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"Well…" He seems strangely subdued in his mannerisms and voice. "I can see why you’re single then."
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:39 PM
She ignores that. "Are you alright? You sound down."
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He sinks into the couch. "Well, don’t tell anyone this, but… I got shot. It was kinda shocking, and I’m like… Really brave, so that shows you it’s something. And the… And the boss… He’s in the hospital now."
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 2:49 PM
Harriet freezes. Was this related to the body-swap ghost-thing she was doing? "That sounds really serious," she says, trying to inject as much sympathy in her tone as possible. "Do you know who shot you?"
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"Yeah, yeah, I know… He’ll make it… He’s strong. It’s like, uh… It’s like… Well, you wouldn’t get this stuff a week ago, y’know?" It doesn’t sound like Carl actually listened to a word you just said.
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 3:00 PM
Harriet exhales. "Are you gonna be alright?"
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"Yeah, yeah, of course I am… I just… Miss not being CEO? Things were so much easier when the boss was leading things. Now he’s in the hospital, and it’s this whole mess, and like… Whatever happened to simple office jobs, y’know? Well, you wouldn’t know. You’re still just doing the office job thing, but like it’s different for me." He sighs. "It’s good though, y’know? You’re a woman, so I’m not like… Competing against me for my coolness, so I can actually say these things to you. It’s kinda liberating, letting down my everpresent walls or unfaltering coolness and power, and knowing you’re a woman so it’s safe. Without sexism, we wouldn’t be able to have this conversation. Those feminists don’t teach you that."
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 3:15 PM
Harriet smiles, her face raw plastic. "Yes. It's a good thing I'm a woman. Otherwise you would have to treat me as a person and not rotten meat, right? Here's what I deserve."
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"Rotten meat? I mean, come on… I wouldn’t say… I wouldn’t say I’m treating you like that at all. This, it’s… A compliment. I said you were better than men at something, it’s a good thing. You girls get so insensitive about everything, I swear… It’s like, imagine if men tried to take equality in the woman-only field of housewives. You wouldn’t have a housemanwife, would you? Now that… That’s the problem with equality."
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Harriet Kadin 2/25/2023 3:20 PM
((hey sorry i gotta leave earlier than expected))
3:20 PM
((driving lessons))
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((Alright, see ya))
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((Can you do a makeup session at some point))
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"Rotten meat? I mean, come on… I wouldn’t say… I wouldn’t say I’m treating you like that at all. This, it’s… A compliment. I said you were better than men at something, it’s a good thing. You girls get so insensitive about everything, I swear… It’s like, imagine if men tried to take equality in the woman-only field of housewives. You wouldn’t have a housemanwife, would you? Now that… That’s the problem with equality."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 2:11 PM
Harriet exhales. For some reason, she feels an awful, terrible pang, like someone is reaching through her chest to slurp up her organs. She must not be a very bad person for thinking this way about him, right? Her superior. Really, she should be apologizing. "I'm sorry, Carl," she says - and then instinctively clamps a hand over her mouth, biting down. These aren't her thoughts. This isn't what she'd think. Who the fuck is doing this?
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"Yeah, see? Good. You’re- You’re way better than these awful feminists. You know how to listen to a superior. I mean… They really should make more women like you."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 2:22 PM
Harriet grins stiffly. Unbidden, the words come out again - "I completely agree."
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He nodded, before looking around the room. "Not like… Not like my wife…" He paused uncomfortably for a moment. "Even if, theoretically, I wasn’t the best husband… Theoretically… No one deserves to be alone, right? She owed me that much."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 2:27 PM
Harriet nods sharply. "Right... no, I completely agree. Male loneliness, is like, an epidemic, you know? It's so sad how neglected you all are."
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"Yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah… Yeah." He pauses uncomfortably again. "But you… You’re not going to leave me right? You know your place."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 2:32 PM
Harriet crosses her hands over her lap. "Of course not. Here until the end, Carl, remember?"
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"Right. No, yeah, right." He sighs. "It’s so refreshing when a woman actually listens. You do everything I say without question, like… You get it. I mean, I could just…" He reaches out to grab the air, in the general direction of Harriet, at chest level. "And like… What would you do to stop me? Stand up? Haha… Ha…" Disgust slowly forms on his face and he looks at his hand for a moment. "…Kidding. Just a joke."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 2:44 PM
Harriet crosses her hands over her chest, as if instinctively. All of a sudden, terror hits her - one that's been slowly building, and has now reached a peak. What the fuck is she doing? Why is she in his house? What is she doing -
2:44 PM
As if instinctively - to punish herself for the fear - Harriet hits herself in the face. Her nose makes a crunching sound beneath her palm and Harriet's vision suddenly spins.
2:45 PM
"Oh hell," she slurs, nose bleeding.
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"…Uh, what? Is that- What? If that’s… An invitation, I don’t think most people are into it if you do it to yourself. …Maybe someone." He gets up and passes her a box of Kleenex.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 2:51 PM
"No-" Harriet gasps, taking the tissues gratefully and wiping blood off herself - "It's just.. a compulsion. I do that sometimes, I'm sorry..."
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"…Why? I mean, the only one who can control your body is you, right?" He does not appear to be sarcastic, despite the evident hypocrisy.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 2:55 PM
"It's like..." Harriet struggles for words to explain it. "You think things you don't mean sometimes, right? Sudden, instant thoughts that don't represent who you are.. or who you want to be, at least. This is the same thing. Sometimes I just hurt myself - on accident - because my body hasn't figured out that I'm not.. the kind of person that wants to do that..."
2:55 PM
Harriet swallows back something that tastes suspiciously like bile.
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"So… When we do bad things… That’s not really us?"
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 3:01 PM
Oh shit, that's not what she wanted him to take from this at all. "Not.. necessarily..." she tries to say, before her voice drains away and her hand comes to her neck. Let him have this, something whispers. Isn't it okay to let him have this?
3:01 PM
"Maybe." She settles on.
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"Maybe? Well, that’s- That’s not really an answer."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 3:05 PM
"I'm sorry, I don't have answers for everything. I just mean... sometimes I do things I don't want to. I think.. the real question is whether you want to be doing..." Harriet gestures around vaguely. "This."
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"Well… You’re a pretty lame therapist." He stresses the second syllable of that last word rather than the first. "What I want is to be cool and admired, and that just means the small portion of me that isn’t living up to that… Just isn’t part of me! I think you’ve solved me, doctor. I’m the sanest man alive now." He sighs in relief, but his expression continues to be marked by thinly veiled discomfort. "That feels nice."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 3:18 PM
"I'm glad," says Harriet.
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"You, uh, you remember… When I pushed you down a flight of stairs?"
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 3:25 PM
Harriet grimaces. "I do, in fact, remember that."
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"That’s… Uh… What the kids call cringe." He pauses for a moment. "By which I mean, sorry… That’s, uh… That’s the kind of person I don't want to be. It was a stupid decision. It's just… I had majorly fucked up right before… And I wanted the win. But like, since you’re… Y’know…" He pointed at the wheelchair. "It only made me look pathetic, didn’t it?"
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 3:36 PM
Harriet nodded slightly. "I'm glad. Thank you... for the apology? Uh, wait, never mind, that wasn't really an apology. Thank you for.. acknowledging? It? And I'm glad you don't want to be that kind of person. If it helps, I don't want to be the person who gets pushed down the stairs, either."
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"Can you, uh… Rephrase that in a way where you like… Forgive me. It’d take the 1 and only weight off my shoulders."
3:42 PM
Harriet's phone rings.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 3:47 PM
"Wait - sorry, I have to take this -"
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"…That’s not what I asked." Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:00 PM
Harriet checks the name on the phone anxiously.
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It’s Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:01 PM
“I forgive you, Carl, I do - please let me take this,” Harriet says.
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"…Fine."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:05 PM
Harriet mutters an apology, and then wheels to the other room, pressing “accept” at the same time.
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"Are you sure?" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:14 PM
“Are you sure what?” says Harriet.
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"That it’s not there."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:17 PM
"I'm sure."
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"Fuck. We’ll have to do something more dangerous then. Great job."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:25 PM
"It's not my fault! How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be here? If anything, it's your fault."
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"How is that my fault!? Ugh, just- I know you couldn’t have done anything. I’m just annoyed, okay? If you’re going to play punching bag for everyone around you at least let me have my turn."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:29 PM
Harriet rolls her eyes. "Whatever. What's the plan?"
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"We’ll have to break into Shuichi Maoziwam’s apartment tomorrow. That’s probably where it is."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:31 PM
"Great, great, great. Just what I wanted to hear. Do you need anything else?"
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"…No. I actually completed my end, there’s a mobster who’s even more malleable than you. Should go well."
4:35 PM
"…Oh, and if you’re still talking to Carl after finishing your search I’m going to lose my goddamn mind. Do better." He quickly adds.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:36 PM
"Ha.. ha.. yeah. Anyways, bye." Harriet quickly hangs up.
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Alexi doesn’t get another word in before the call ends.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:41 PM
Harriet exhales, and rolls herself back into the living room.
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"Did you make food this time?" Carl asks without looking at her.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:46 PM
"No, sorry." Says Harriet reflexively. "Listen, Carl, I've got to go..."
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"Huh? Why?" He gets up.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:52 PM
"I just - have stuff to do.. at my house... work, and uh... bills. I need to finish filing my tax invoices."
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"I can…" He grabbed onto the wheelchair. "…Make you stay."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 4:59 PM
Harriet freezes. No, no, no, shit - "Carl." She says weakly. "I thought you didn't want to be that kind of person anymore. The kind that hurts me."
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"Ah- That’s-" He lets go reflexively. "That’s a different thing."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 5:02 PM
"How? Carl, please just let me go."
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"It’s just… I thought we were on the same page… About… How my loneliness is a pandemic or something like that."
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 5:07 PM
"Epidemic. And! We are on the same page! Don't worry. It's just that.. I don't think I can be the one that helps you." Reflexively, Harriet slams her face against her hand again. "Sorry. I'm just... I need to leave, Carl. If I stay here for any longer I'm gonna keep hurting myself." (edited)
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"Well… That’s- That’s not my fault! You’re the one doing it!" He moves away from the chair, confused and baffled. "I’m… I’m… A good person. We established that! I’ve done nothing wrong! Where’s my reward?!" You can tell even he doesn’t believe that.
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 5:14 PM
"Do you believe that?" She says, sort of desperately. "Do you believe you're not doing something wrong right now?"
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"I just do what I do! Like everyone else! I just follow what I’m supposed to, I don’t know what else to do! You- You said hitting yourself for no reason wasn’t a choice! I just… I just don’t have a choice either, huh? Maybe I’m the bigger victim in all this for being forced to hurt you!?"
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 5:22 PM
((sorry if this wasnt all the progress that you wanted but this is SUPER intense so i think i need to stop now))
5:22 PM
((good scene tho))
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((Sorry about this session))
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Harriet Kadin 3/4/2023 5:24 PM
((it's alright! we needed to hit this point eventually))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 3/11/2023 10:20 AM
((hey jsyk I’ll have to start about 2 hrs late @ 4))
10:20 AM
((rehearsal))
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((Alright))
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"I just do what I do! Like everyone else! I just follow what I’m supposed to, I don’t know what else to do! You- You said hitting yourself for no reason wasn’t a choice! I just… I just don’t have a choice either, huh? Maybe I’m the bigger victim in all this for being forced to hurt you!?"
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Harriet Kadin 3/11/2023 4:06 PM
“That’s bullshit, Carl! You know that’s bullshit! You have autonomy, Carl, you can make real choices - I mean, look at you! I can’t even walk, Carl, fuck...”
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"..." He turned away, and stayed silent.
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Harriet Kadin 3/11/2023 4:15 PM
Harriet buries her face in her hands and starts to inhale overwhelmed, terrible breaths, pumping air into her lungs like a sieve. She feels weightless. (edited)
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"I-I thought you wanted to go? Did you... Change your mind?" He doesn't turn back to look at Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 3/11/2023 4:18 PM
“No.” Harriet says curtly, after collecting herself. “Goodbye, Carl. I’ll... see you at work.”
4:19 PM
She rolls herself out the door and to her car.
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He doesn't follow after her.
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Harriet Kadin 3/11/2023 4:28 PM
Harriet locks the car door and places her head against the steering wheel, breathing in, then out. In, then out. It’s all she can manage, for the moment. Everything - the joy of having power over him, of knowing his self-worth was entirely up to her discretion, of feeling, if just for a moment, like her hands were on the reins - seems to have washed away. The only thing left is cold clarity. Who are you trying to fool, girl? Harriet turns the key in the engine and drives, almost on autopilot. Is this punishment? What else could it be? The constant self-immolation... an escalating war of internal tension. Isolation, engulfment, and pain. The slap - from her own hand - a setting of boundaries, the carrot/stick method. There’s a contract, somewhere, one that Harriet can’t see or understand - but when she breaks it, something hurts her, with her own body as candle and wick. Is that why she does this? Prostrates herself at the thin hope of maybe, one day, having an edge over him? Is it not her? Could it not be her thinking this? Feeling this? God, she hopes it isn’t her fault. She’s really tired of things being her fault. Harriet arrives at her home.
4:29 PM
She unlocks the door. Wheels herself inside. Feels that terrible exhaustion setting in, and - seconds after reaching her bed - almost immediately falls asleep.
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((End chapter/session))
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8: Abrupt Gearshift
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Harriet wakes up in her bed the next morning. Her cat is sitting on top of her face.
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:15 PM
"Gfhdghdgdhsdj," says Harriet.
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The cat gets off and hurries towards it's bowl, playing with it aggressively.
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:26 PM
Harriet groans and rubs her forehead. Her skin feels like clay when she touches it - cool, dry. Many things are clear to her now. That terrible emptiness.
3:26 PM
This can never happen again.
3:26 PM
Harriet fumbles for her phone.
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She has a message from Sarah.
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:31 PM
Harriet checks the message.
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'Hey. Back in town. Had a rough day yesterday, wanna hang out?'
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:37 PM
Harriet feels a surge of relief. Finally. "Yeah of course!!!!!", she types, before frowning and amending it to "Yeah of course!". Can't seem too needy.
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'Alright. Meet me at my apartment soon'
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:41 PM
Harriet checks to make sure she doesn't have any work-related obligations.
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She does have a shift today, but this would involve seeing Carl again.
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:46 PM
Harriet stares emptily at her hands. The thought of seeing Carl again - that useless fucking glaze to his eyes, the pleading, the abandonment issues that're entirely his fault - makes her want to shank herself in the neck. She exhales, and the sound comes out in a rattle.
3:46 PM
She texts Sarah back. "For sure. In what, 20 min?"
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'Yeah. Sounds good.'
3:47 PM
Corpse Husband appears in the room suddenly, and begins moving on it's own. (( #harriet-and-unknown ))
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 3:49 PM
"Huh...?"
3:49 PM
I try to recall why I'm here. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:51 PM
Harriet yelps and tries not to fall off her bed.
3:51 PM
"You again!!!"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 3:53 PM
"Hey! What are you doing!?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:53 PM
"What are you doing!! Listen, it was helpful the first too times, but I kind of draw the line at you showing up in my room..!"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 3:54 PM
I'm confused. "Why?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 3:55 PM
"Uh... it's a private space?"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 3:56 PM
"Well...... I don't care."
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:01 PM
"Oh, suck my dick from the back. Listen, can you just tell me who you are? Like, really? This nickname is getting fucking stupid."
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:01 PM
I sit down.
4:02 PM
I think. "I'm... Marco Gould." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:07 PM
Harriet squints. "Do I... know you? I don't know if I've heard that name before..." (edited)
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:08 PM
"What? Don't you? I thought you did."
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:13 PM
"I have a famously bad memory. You might have said it before, but... I meant in a greater social context, I guess? Like, for example, why are you a ghost, and also in my house?"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:14 PM
"A ghost?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:18 PM
"Well, you sure seem... I dunno, ghostlike."
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:18 PM
"How?"
4:18 PM
"I'm normal."
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:24 PM
"Well, you sure seem to have a talent for going through walls for someone completely normal."
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:25 PM
"When did I do that?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:28 PM
"I dunno, the other day? Here, try it now."
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:30 PM
"Going through a wall?"
4:30 PM
"What if you try to kill me?" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:33 PM
"Why on earth would I do that?"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:34 PM
"I don't know."
4:34 PM
I put a hand up to a wall and try to push it through. (edited)
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???'s hand goes through a wall.
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:35 PM
"What?"
4:35 PM
I pull it back and stare at the hand. "I didn't expect that." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:39 PM
"Are you forgetting all that shit you've done so far?"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:54 PM
"That's different!"
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 4:57 PM
"How??? On earth??? is it different???"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 4:57 PM
"I understood what I did before." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 5:00 PM
"So.. you don't know. Anything."
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 5:00 PM
"I know everything."
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It is approaching 20 minutes since Harriet said the relevant thing.
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 5:04 PM
"Oh shit! Sorry, I've got to leave. I know this probably has crazy metaphysical implications, but uh... can we pick this up later?"
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 5:05 PM
"Where are you going?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 5:08 PM
"To see a friend."
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 5:15 PM
"I'll come with you."
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Harriet Kadin 4/15/2023 5:16 PM
((gotta stop here bc im going out with a friend tonight))
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Marco Gould 4/15/2023 5:16 PM
((have fun!!))
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((Hi))
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:01 PM
((hi))
2:06 PM
"You'll.. come with me?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:10 PM
"Yes."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:11 PM
((hey jsyk the weather outside is real bad and my lights just flickered so if i stop responding it’s because the power went out))
2:12 PM
((can my internet pls work…))
2:18 PM
"Can other people, like... see you?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:22 PM
"What? I don't know?"
2:22 PM
"Yes?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:22 PM
"Okay, well, I'm not taking you if other people can see you. Can we test it?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:22 PM
"How?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:23 PM
"I dunno, go outside and try talking to someone."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:23 PM
"No. You'll go away without me." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:24 PM
"I won't! I'll just be watching from a distance."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:24 PM
I sigh. "I'm going with you no matter what, anyway."
2:25 PM
"Therefore, that's pointless." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:27 PM
"Why?? On earth would you want to be here?? I have the least interesting life ever."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:28 PM
"I have nothing better to do...?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:31 PM
"Okay, but I don't want you around."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:32 PM
"I don't care."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:33 PM
"God, does anyone tolerate your existence other than me? I can't imagine they do."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:34 PM
"Take a look at my skin and you'll find the answer."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:35 PM
Harriet frowns, and glances at Marco's skin for the first time.
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((I have literally no idea what pichuis is trying to say))
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:38 PM
"...I'm clearly alive, so the answer is yes." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:40 PM
"No, I mean, do you have any, like, real friends? People who don't see you as a waste of time? Someone who isn't constantly thinking that being with you is such a drain on their mental energy that they just wanna kill themselves? Because I dunno. You're kind of giving off those vibes."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:41 PM
"I have hundreds of 'real friends'." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:46 PM
"Are you sure they don't secretly want to kill themselves?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:47 PM
"Who would want to kill themselves? That's ridiculous."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:49 PM
"Uh, lots of people?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:50 PM
"They must be broken."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:51 PM
"That's a very insensitive way to talk about other human beings..."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:52 PM
"As opposed to how you were talking about me?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:54 PM
"That's!... different."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 2:55 PM
"How?" I seem puzzled.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 2:59 PM
"Okay, I'm.. speaking in the broad sense, okay? Broadly, it's not okay to be mean to depressed people, because.. it's not very socially viable, and in the kind of political future I'm looking for, the goal is to... not treat people, like that. But in an in individual, non-epidemic sense, there are certain people that make themselves deserving of treatment. The word abuse makes it sound bad... it's not like that. It's just that, you've done your own grave, with the way you behave, and there's no going back after a certain point, so it's okay for me to treat you as utterly divorced from conventional leftist morality. Okay?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:00 PM
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:00 PM
"You don't have to get it, it's pretty complicated theory. My point is that there's nothing internally inconsistent about what I'm saying."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:01 PM
"Nonsensical is worse than inconsistent."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:02 PM
"It's not my fault if you didn't understand!"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:04 PM
"It is."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:04 PM
"It's not my responsibility to make you understand!! That's up to you!!"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:05 PM
"Why? You're the person who keeps arguing."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:06 PM
"I'm only arguing because you keep pushing the conversation forwards by saying stupid things."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:08 PM
"Not true."
3:08 PM
"Why don't we just leave?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:10 PM
"Fine," says Harriet grumpily, and wheels herself to her car.
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:11 PM
I follow her.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:16 PM
Harriet slams the door shut with more force than is necessary, and tells Siri to take her to Sarah's apartment. It spits out the directions, and Harriet begins driving, bulwarked by a strange mix of fear and excitement.
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They arrive in front of Sarah’s apartment building.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:27 PM
Harriet gestures to the elevator. "Get in."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:29 PM
I leave the car and get in.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:32 PM
Harriet takes the elevator up to Sarah's room, shaking with anticipation all the while. She knocks on the door.
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No response.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:37 PM
Harriet frowns. She tries ringing the doorbell.
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The elevator goes down and up again. Sarah exits it. "Sorry, something came up. I’m here now."
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:40 PM
"Who are you?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:41 PM
Harriet elbows him in a way she hopes is subtle. "Sarah! It's great to see you."
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Sarah doesn’t react to ???. She smiles slightly at Harriet. "…Yeah. Same." She opens the door.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:45 PM
Harriet exhales, not realizing how worried she was about ??? interfering until this moment. She wheels herself in.
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She closes the door behind herself and Harriet. "So… How are you?" Her tone is incredibly uncomfortable.
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:47 PM
"Ugh." I try to open the door.
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??? opens the door.
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:47 PM
I walk in, close it, and look for a space to sit down.
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There’s a couch.
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 3:48 PM
I sit on the couch.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:49 PM
"I'm doing alright," Harriet says, almost not lying. The second she saw Sarah, a sort of joy had flooded her - a freedom from the awful, awful events from earlier. Surely everything would be alright now, right? No more dark skies. "How are you?"
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"…I'm fine." Her tone makes this an obvious lie.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:51 PM
Harriet frowns. "Did something.. happen? I can help.. probably."
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"Nothing happened, okay!" She snapped. "We’re just talking right now. About normal everyday things!"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:53 PM
"Alright!" Harriet says, eyes wide. "Normal things. Right. But if.. something did happen. I could be helpful. As someone to.. talk to about it. But nothing happened!!! So it doesn't matter!!!!!!! What have you been up to today!!!??!!!"
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"Nothing I want to discuss. What about you?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 3:56 PM
"Uh.. nothing I want to discuss, either. Ha... ha."
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"…"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:00 PM
"..."
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"…So much for normal. Fuck." She groans.
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:02 PM
"Um.. we could still talk about the weather, if you'd like?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 4:02 PM
I stare at Sarah.
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"The weather? What about it? Oh, it’s sunny. End of conversation."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:07 PM
"Er... yes."
4:07 PM
Harriet buries her face in her hands.
4:07 PM
"God, I'm bad at this."
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"Somehow, you’re just about the only person left who I can pretend to put up with."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:09 PM
"Oh.. pretend?"
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"Hm? Pretend what?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:18 PM
"Pretend.. to put up with."
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"Wait- Did I say-?"
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Marco Gould 4/22/2023 4:24 PM
"Yes."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:25 PM
"Yes."
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"…Ignore that."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:28 PM
"Ah.. that's alright. I'll ignore it! I'll ignore anything. I'm good at that..."
4:28 PM
"So.. are there people in your life you can't deal with, right now?"
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"I still have to deal with that annoying YouTuber. He’s started fake confessing to murders now, or something like that."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:36 PM
"What was he called again?"
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"The Elusive Sentasaurus."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:39 PM
"Sounds like a frustrating thing to have to deal with, I'm sorry. He's... fake confessing to murders? What?"
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"Sam Kidink. My boss's son. Honestly, at this po- Wait, why am I even venting to you? Stop tricking me."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:42 PM
"I'm not trying to trick you! I'm just trying to be helpful."
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"Why would you do that? It’s not like I’m paying you. I don’t need a shrink."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:50 PM
"Uh.. because I like to be helpful to other people? Because it helps me remember that I.. exist?"
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"Trust me, being helpful to other people does nothing. It only makes them resent you."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:53 PM
"Ah.. but it's what I'm supposed to do. And you don't resent me.. right?"
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"I’m not going to answer that."
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 4:57 PM
"Okay. I understand."
4:59 PM
"I'm just saying... I don't think helping other people makes them resent you. I think helping other people validates a certain part of you that's desperate for approval. It reminds you why you're alive, and what your job is, and who benefits from being here. So I promise, I'll be kind about it. If you decide to show weakness. (edited)
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"…What?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/22/2023 5:00 PM
((leaving now, got to do work.. unfortunately))
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:07 PM
“Don’t worry about it.”
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"What exactly… Do you think I’m like?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:14 PM
“Um.. I don’t know. I don’t know you that well. But you seem like a good person... like you’re trying to do your best to be a good person no matter what, is that right?”
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"…Yeah." Her expression doesn’t seem to agree. "That’s right."
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:19 PM
“How do.. you feel about the kind of person you are?”
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She looks at Harriet silently for a moment. "That’s kind of a personal question."
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Marco Gould 4/29/2023 2:21 PM
Looking very confused by their interaction. I stand up and look around for some food or drinks. (edited)
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There’s a kitchen.
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:25 PM
“Sorry,” Harriet says quickly. “I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.”
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Marco Gould 4/29/2023 2:25 PM
I open the fridge and take something that looks appetising. (edited)
2:26 PM
Then I sit down and start eating. (edited)
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She makes a disgusted expression and slowly opens her mouth. "Harriet… You want to be my friend, ri-?" She notices ??? and looks incredibly confused. "Am I… Seeing things?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:31 PM
Oh shit.
2:31 PM
“Uh........ I. Don’t know what that is?”
2:32 PM
Great cover, Harriet.
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"But… I’m not imagining that, right? Food is just flying now?" When ??? ingests food it just falls through them and onto the floor.
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Marco Gould 4/29/2023 2:33 PM
"What? What the hell? Ew."
2:34 PM
I try to feel my own mouth.
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:37 PM
“I... don’t think you’re imagining it. But it’s.. probably not a big deal?? Not something to, uh. Worry about,”
2:37 PM
Harriet shoots Marco a look that appears to be communicating something along the lines of stop that right now you shiteating asshole
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???'s mouth obviously exists and is normal. "…This is him again, isn’t it?" She gets up.
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Marco Gould 4/29/2023 2:40 PM
"Ugh. I'm hungry."
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:42 PM
“...Him?”
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"Bob, get out of here. I told you to leave me alone!"
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:49 PM
“Bob?????”
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"Smith! The YouTuber!"
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 2:59 PM
“Why... would Bob Smith the YouTuber be here?”
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"Because he keeps harassing me! And he’s involved in some kind of magic thing."
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 3:01 PM
“Magic is real??????”
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"Something like that. At the very least it can make things fly, and that should include food."
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 3:07 PM
“Uh... this is a lot to process.”
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"Yeah."
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 3:12 PM
“So, uh... why would Bob Smith be using his magic powers to levitate a bunch of food around your house?”
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"I don't know!"
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Marco Gould 4/29/2023 3:15 PM
"What's a YouTuber?"
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 3:17 PM
Harriet ignores him.
3:17 PM
“Well, this.. certainly seems troubling. So you’re... really just telling me magic is real? Just like that? Shouldn’t there be some sociopolitical implications to this?”
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"That wasn't really my first thought." She said bitterly.
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Harriet Kadin 4/29/2023 3:19 PM
“No, I just mean... the far-reaching effects this should have on the rest of the world should be insane. I mean, this kind of thing should do.. something to the currently existing power structures at hand, right? That’s what magic is always used for in stories.”
3:21 PM
((cutting it short here, see u))
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"I'm not the kind of person who cares about politics. Honestly, it's kind of weird you are." ((Alright see ya))
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"I'm not the kind of person who cares about politics. Honestly, it's kind of weird you are."
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 2:12 PM
“I... don’t think it’s particularly weird. I’ve always cared about politics.”
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"Why? It’s not like it matters."
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 2:15 PM
I sigh. "It's like you're both speaking a different language."
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 2:19 PM
“I mean... it matters to me. This is the future we’re talking about, right?”
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"What, are you going to run for president or something? Nothing's even going to pretend to change over one vote. You gotta think more small scale."
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 2:24 PM
Harriet bristles. “I mean... that might be true, but I want to believe that the things I’m doing have some kind of impact... that someone can hear me. That anyone’s listening to me...”
2:24 PM
On impulse, Harriet slams her hand into her forehead. The pain is blinding.
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"What… Was that?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 2:32 PM
“Ah... ignore that. I’m just being a little bitch.”
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"…?" She backs away awkwardly. "I… Don’t think I can keep doing this."
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 2:35 PM
I stare between them.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 2:39 PM
“Keep doing what?”
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"This! I don’t do… Friends. You just… I dunno… You made me feel… Better about myself by comparison. It’s not often I find someone who seems to suck up to me so much, and you… Well, I thought I’d let you do your thing I guess. But you’re just… So weird. I can’t follow what you’re doing at all. That… That was my breaking point. Whatever the hell I was using you for, it’s not worth it if you’re gonna be such a freak."
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 2:46 PM
Harriet freezes. “Oh.”
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"It’s… I’m not the bad guy here, okay?" She does not elaborate on what that means, but it’s clear from her voice that she feels guilty.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 2:52 PM
“No. Sure.” Harriet says thickly. “Not the bad guy. But I can still be... useful to you. I can stop being weird. I promise. I’ll glue my own tongue to the roof of my mouth so I can’t speak anymore, if you want.”
2:52 PM
What the actual fuck is she saying? This isn’t how she feels. This is insane.
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"That’s the weird part! Why are you saying… That!? Normal people don’t talk like that."
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 2:56 PM
"And normal people do talk like you!?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:03 PM
"It's not... I mean, isn't the fact that I'm not normal good enough reason to use me? I'm.. more easily manipulated. I'm vulnerable. I'm desperate for affection.. isn't that something you want, if you're trying to get away with something?"
3:04 PM
Harriet folds herself in half. "God, I'm sorry, please ignore these things I'm saying... I don't think like this, I promise..." Harriet trails off, slapping her hand over her mouth, suddenly furious, suddenly full of bright, awful energy. She bites her hand, and comes away bleeding.
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"So you… Want me to use you?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:06 PM
"In whatever way you see fit," Harriet says, before immediately saying "I don't mean that."
3:06 PM
She bites herself again.
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She blinks. "…What?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:13 PM
"Please don't pay attention to anything I'm saying right now, I'm... I'm sorry."
3:14 PM
Harriet sends a pleading look at Marco. She doesn't know what she's even looking for, just... some way out of... this. All this. The pain of being seen.
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"How do you expect anyone to get along with you when you react like that?"
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 3:16 PM
I stare back at Harriet. "What are you doing?"
3:17 PM
"Ugh." I stand directly between Harriet and Sarah. "Stop ignoring me!" (edited)
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She still doesn’t notice you.
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 3:17 PM
I slap Sarah.
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"Ow!" She looks around. "What the hell?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:29 PM
"Oh my god." Harriet mutters.
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 3:29 PM
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
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"Did you just slap me somehow?" Sarah walks right through ??? like a ghost.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:33 PM
"I didn't!!" Harriet yelped. "There's!! A Guy!!"
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"Right, Bob." She sighs. "Of course he’s still pissed at me."
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 3:35 PM
"My name is NOT Bob!"
3:35 PM
"Say my name isn't Bob!"
3:35 PM
I seethe.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:38 PM
Harriet ignores him.
3:38 PM
"Listen, I'm... sorry. About all of this."
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"…" she doesn’t answer, and her phone rings. "I have to take this."
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 3:41 PM
I walk in front of Harriet and glare at her. "Listen to me!!"
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She still doesn’t react, and picks up the phone.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:45 PM
"Why would you want the person you just slapped in the face to acknowledge you!!" Harriet whisper-yells at him.
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Sarah's expression becomes some mix of panic and rage. "I have to go." She runs out quickly.
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Marco Gould 5/6/2023 3:46 PM
"Because they don't know who I am!"
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:50 PM
Harriet immediately rolls herself out the door in an attempt to follow her.
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((Channel split))
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Sarah heads down the stairs. Corpse Husband is still following you but is no longer acting independently.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 3:58 PM
Harriet swears and attempts to take the elevator.
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Harriet arrives at the ground floor, but Sarah is gone.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 4:08 PM
"Shit." Harriet says. "Well, that went... awfully."
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Harriet's phone rings.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 4:12 PM
Harriet checks who it is.
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It’s Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 4:21 PM
Harriet picks up.
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As Harriet is about to pick up, a second person calls at the same time. It’s Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 4:23 PM
Harriet picks up Carl's call.
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((Okay I have to pause here actually because I have not finished with what happens to Carl beforehand. I wasn’t expecting you to pick up you called my bluff. This should be fixed later today if you’re still available))
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Harriet Kadin 5/6/2023 4:28 PM
((lol i outwitted you. idk if i'll be available later today but i'll lyk))
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((Okay definitely not today))
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((Saturday))
6:55 PM
((Might start a little later than usual depending on how things go))
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"Heyyyyyy…" Carl.
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((I forgot you were busy are you able to do a makeup session at some point this week))
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Ehn/PC
((I forgot you were busy are you able to do a makeup session at some point this week))
Harriet Kadin 5/13/2023 10:14 PM
((probably i’ll let u know what time im available))
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Harriet Kadin 5/17/2023 4:28 PM
((How do u feel abt tmrw))
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((Oh I thought you were saying today. Tomorrow also works))
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Harriet Kadin 5/17/2023 4:29 PM
((I meant today initially but I forgot I had a test today I just got home from a three hour exam and I think I need to sleep forever))
4:29 PM
((But tomorrow should be good)
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 3:25 PM
@Ehn/PC ((can we do like 4:30 to 7ish))
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((That works))
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 4:36 PM
“Hi, Carl.” Harriet says.
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"You’re, uh… You didn’t come in to work today."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 4:45 PM
“I’m sorry.” Harriet says mechanically. “I couldn’t... work up the energy.”
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"But… You don’t even have to walk."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 4:56 PM
“Emotionally, Carl.”
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"Emotionally?" He pauses. "Well… Uh… Well… Either way, I… I need you, y’know? For work. Don’t you think not considering that is kind of selfish?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:09 PM
"I'm sorry I'm inconveniencing you, Carl," Harriet says, her voice shaking with barely-restrained rage. "If you like, I can shove myself in a meat grinder and you can get the leftovers. Or I could, like, rig up a fun suicide machine that ends with my decapitated head being dunked through a basketball hoop. Would that be better for you?"
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He doesn’t respond.
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:14 PM
Harriet keeps going. "I could buy a shotgun. I mean, this is America, Carl, I could buy so many shotguns! I'm aware that isn't very politically correct of me.. but all my friends love talking about the armed uprising of the proletariat, so maybe it is? I don't know anymore, Carl. I mean, I'm a woman, so maybe I should just use pills? I need your advice, Carl. You're so helpful - I can't do this by myself."
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"Uh- I- Uh- I think… Uh, it sounds like you shouldn’t do that."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:19 PM
Harriet pouts. "Why not?"
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His voice turns into a pathetic squeak. "Please don’t hurt me, boss."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:27 PM
Harriet frowns. "Who's the boss?"
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"Huh?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:30 PM
"Who's the boss, Carl?"
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"…Mr Maoziwam?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:32 PM
"Tell me about him."
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"Wh-Why?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:36 PM
"Because if you don't I'll kill myself over the phone."
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"Please don’t… Do that… What do you want to know?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:41 PM
"Is he the one who called me a whore, that one time? In your office, when you thought I wasn't listening? What does he want from you?"
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"I dunno, he doesn’t really tell me anything…"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:44 PM
"Is he having you do something sketchy?"
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"Not really… He just keeps asking me to stop talking to the boss."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:49 PM
"Right. Niebel."
5:49 PM
"Carl, why do you think I work for you? Be honest."
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"The… Money?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:51 PM
"That's part of it. Why else?"
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"There's... More than that?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 5:57 PM
"Yes."
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"Is it... For me?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:14 PM
"Something like that. I mean... you're just so needy, Carl. You can see why that'd be valuable, right? To have someone around so unbelievably desperate for female attention of any kind?" (edited)
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"I don't... I don't really think that's true."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:20 PM
"Why not?"
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"That's... Why are you saying this, exactly?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:24 PM
Harriet's nose is bleeding.
6:24 PM
"Because I'm tired, Carl. I'm really, really tired."
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"I can... Be better..."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:32 PM
"You have to be. Or everyone will leave you again, Carl, okay? Including me."
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"Can I just… Ask you a question?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:36 PM
"Okay."
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"Have you ever… Been in love? Like with another man, but like you’re pretending, but you’re also a man in this scenario. And this other guy… He’s really cool and smart… Like even more than me somehow. So like… You pretend you’re gay or something. Has that ever happened to you?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:42 PM
"Uh. I'm not gay. And I..... okay. Whatever. Yeah. That's.. happened to me, before."
6:42 PM
"But I'm not gay. For reference."
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"Now, uh, if that guy died… You wouldn’t be responsible right?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:45 PM
"I guess it would depend on how s- he died."
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"He fell off a mountain."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:45 PM
"Did you... push him?"
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"No… I’m not… I’m not you."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:48 PM
Harriet freezes. Her tone is very cold. "Where are you going with this, Carl?"
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"I’m just asking… Would you have pushed him…? Or was it… Was it an accident?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:49 PM
Harriet inhales shakily. "If it was me? It would be an accident. But if it was you? I don't know."
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"It’s not me! I’m not talking about me! I wasn’t even near him when he died…"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:52 PM
"Right. Right... out of curiosity, Carl, who would this be?"
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"Haven’t you uh… Heard the rumours? They were trending last week…"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:55 PM
"Indulge me. Pretend I haven't."
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"They’re… They’re saying the boss killed his… Uh… 'boyfriend'."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 6:58 PM
"And what does this have to do with you, Carl?"
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"Well, umm… He was my brother. Would you… Would you have killed my brother?"
7:00 PM
"If you were pretending to be gay together."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 7:02 PM
"Not... without good reason."
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"And what’s… What would be a good reason?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 7:04 PM
"I don't know. You're his brother - can't you think of a good reason?"' (edited)
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"No one… No one would ever want to kill my bro… That’s like… Illegal."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 7:13 PM
"A lot of things are illegal. We still do them."
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"Well, those are like… Cool crimes."
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 7:16 PM
"Murder can be cool. Depending on who you ask."
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"I don’t- I don’t- Please don’t kill me…"
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Harriet Kadin 5/18/2023 7:17 PM
((it's 7 so i have to leave and eat dinner and be a person. what a convo lmao))
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((See ya))
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"I don’t- I don’t- Please don’t kill me…"
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Harriet Kadin 5/20/2023 2:12 PM
((Shit I realized I forgot to tell you. I am uhh currently at a funeral right now so I will not be AGing))
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((Oh alright then))
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((Saturday but could you also get a makeup session before then or is that not possible))
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Ehn/PC
((Saturday but could you also get a makeup session before then or is that not possible))
Harriet Kadin 5/22/2023 4:01 PM
((I can probably do a makeup session I’ll lyk when I’m available))
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"I don’t- I don’t- Please don’t kill me…"
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:04 PM
"I'm not going to kill you, Carl, you useless creature."
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"I’m not… I wouldn’t say I’m useless. Most probably- Definitely wouldn’t either."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:06 PM
Harriet snorts derisively. "Like who? Your wife who hates you? Or your boss who hates you?"
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"Thats… He doesn’t hate me- He… He says I’m cool!"
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:07 PM
"Do you really think he believes that? He was buttering you up, Carl, god."
2:08 PM
"And you fell for it. Like a sucker."
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"That’s… He wouldn’t… Haha…"
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:10 PM
"Of course he would. You're really easy, you know that?"
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"I’m… I’m not! I’m not!"
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:29 PM
"You're so easy, Carl, and so desperate. For affection - attention - anything." Her voice is clinical.
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"I’m really hard! The hardest of the hard!"
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:33 PM
"Yeah, I'm sure you're made out of fucking stone, Carl. And that's why you're on the verge of tears, right!"
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"I’m not!" Carl. Alexi is calling again.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:43 PM
"I have to wrap this up, Carl."
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"See- See you later!" He hangs up. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:50 PM
Harriet looks at her phone. There's something strange and warm in her chest - like burning, everywhere. For a moment, she doesn't care if she's ruined everything - if Carl will refuse to speak to her after this, will no longer cling to her like she's hiding all the secrets to the universe and then some. It's odd - the words didn't feel right on her tongue, like someone was pushing them up and out of her, someone with a different motivation, an alien way of thinking, mapped to her brain. But the relief is still there. Maybe it isn't even her relief. It's someone else.
2:50 PM
Harriet picks up Alexi's call.
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"Harriet! Where the hell are you?" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 2:52 PM
"Long story. What, am I supposed to be somewhere?"
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"I need your help over here. The other guy isn't responding either."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:01 PM
"What's going on?"
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"Just come here, I'll explain."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:10 PM
"Tell me where you are first, geez."
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"Where do you think? The apartment, obviously."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:14 PM
"Fine," Harriet says shortly, and hangs up. "Pain in the goddamn ass..." she mutters as she wheels herself to her car.
3:14 PM
She promptly takes off.
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Harriet arrives at the apartment building without any issues.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:21 PM
Harriet enters and promptly looks around for Alexi.
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He's in the lobby. "Come on." They get on the elevator.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:26 PM
"What's going on?" Harriet says.
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"I need your help for something I don't think you want anyone to overhear."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:31 PM
"Fine." Harriet says shortly.
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She waits for Harriet to get in the elevator.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:41 PM
Harriet gets on the elevator.
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He goes up to their floor and enters the apartment.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 3:50 PM
Harriet follows.
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"So... First of all. You didn't find it yesterday. I still have 1 last idea for where to look."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 4:01 PM
"Where?"
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"The penthouse of this building. Shuichi Maoziwam's apartment." She points up.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 4:04 PM
"Oh. Uh oh."
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"What?"
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 4:17 PM
"No, just.. I feel like sneaking into Shuichi Maoziwam's apartment won't go well."
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"You do basically work for him, right? Just work with that. I have my own job to figure out, so I’ll focus on that. Don’t distract me, just do your thing."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 4:29 PM
"I've!! Basically never talked to him!!" Harriet yells. "You can't - just expect me to get all chummy with him-"
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"Then sneak in! I don’t care! Guy's wife is dead, so you can copy your Carl technique if you’re desperate." He pauses. "That’s a joke, to be clear. If you do that I will slap you. Just figure something out."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 4:35 PM
"Sneak in? Won't he have, like, security?"
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"His butler died a few days ago. Apparently the only people who've gone into that house since are him, his daughter, and her girlfriends. Okay not apparently, I did just spy on them."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 4:42 PM
"Huh. Well... what about security cameras?"
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"I got Sarah to hack them for me. Hence the spying. I'll delete any footage afterwards, it's fine. And the police will have a lot more on their hands with when Johnner dies today."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 4:58 PM
Harriet exhales. "And we're not being monitored right now, right?"
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"No, we're not."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 5:01 PM
"Okay. I guess... I'll break into his house. I don't... exactly know how to do that. With a lockpick? Do people still use lockpicks, or were they just made up for heist movies?"
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"That's... I don't know. I didn't think that part through for you. Sorry for assuming you had a functioning brain."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 5:11 PM
"Hopefully you won't make that mistake again," Harriet says drily. "God, you're mean."
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"Yeah. And I live happier that way." She heads to the door. "...Good luck, though."
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 5:19 PM
"...Thanks."
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They leave.
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 5:19 PM
((feels like a goodstopping point and i need to eat dinner so))
5:19 PM
((sorry if a lot of progress wasn't made))
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((It's fine))
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Harriet Kadin 5/27/2023 5:20 PM
((👍 ))
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((Saturday))
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They leave.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 2:17 PM
Harriet puts her face in her hands. "What the fuck am I supposed to do..." she moans.
2:17 PM
Harriet cautiously makes her way up to the penthouse, and begins to assess the apartment, looking for possible points of entry.
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The elevator makes its way directly into the penthouse, but it seems to require a code of some kind. The only other entrance is through the staircase.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 2:20 PM
Harriet pulls her phone and calls Alexi immediately.
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He doesn’t pick up.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 2:25 PM
"FUCK YOU", Harriet texts Alexi in all caps.
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No response.
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Harriet gets a text from Carl that simply says. ‘im supposed to fire you or only pretend to threaten you'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 2:37 PM
Harriet texts back "What???"
2:37 PM
"What does this mean"
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‘firing you'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 2:41 PM
"Why"
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'i asked the boss what to do'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 2:41 PM
"And why does he think you should fire me?"
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'he didn’t answer'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 3:01 PM
“And you’re just gonna listen to him?”
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‘hes the boss'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 3:13 PM
“Is he, though? When all he does is treat you like shit?”
3:13 PM
“Carl, you’re his whipping boy. Don’t you want to be better than that?”
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'but hes so cool. im supposed to be like him'
3:23 PM
'theres like 2 people people are supposed to be like’ 'the boss is the man version of that so hes the best one'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 3:34 PM
“I think it would make you even cooler if you could prove you weren’t so desperate for his approval and taciturn acknowledgement all the time. Would he act like this towards you?”
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'how' 'how would I do that'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 3:41 PM
"By not listening to everything he says, for one. By... helping me..."
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'are you trying to use me' 'is that why ur being nice now' ‘because you need something from me'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 3:44 PM
"Would I do something like that?"
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'i feel like ur trying to make me say no when the answer you told me earlier would be yes and this is all really confusing why did this happen today what did I do wrong why is everyone mad at me im innocent and completely harmless and the coolest person of all time and very useful but not a tool im really useful in the sense youd admire like a hero noy like someone you were trying to use because you wouldn’t admire someone youre trying to use thats like embarrassing'
3:47 PM
'*not'
3:47 PM
'no'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 3:56 PM
Harriet frowns. This will need.. more careful handling than she was expecting. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:08 PM
She backtracks. "You're useful, Carl, but that's not all you are. Isn't it a good thing, to be used? To be valuable? To be.. something, to someone even... and you're something to me, Carl, aren't you? I mean, haven't I proved that by now? With how much I listen to you, and tolerate you..."
4:08 PM
"Since when did the Boss offer you a scrap of the kindness I showed you? I'm good to you."
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'just' 'tell me what you want'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:16 PM
"Do you know the code to the boss's apartment?"
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'yes'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:17 PM
"Would you tell it to me?"
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He starts typing and stops several times. Finally, he answers. 'if you promise me you wont leave me' 'sincerely' 'so i can believe it'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:24 PM
"Do you want me to call you? So you can hear my voice."
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'if you want'
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:35 PM
Harriet calls.
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He picks up, but doesn’t say anything.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:41 PM
"I won't leave you, Carl. I promise." She says out loud.
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"I-" He pauses uncomfortably. "…Come on, don’t you think my idiocy is worth a little more than that?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:46 PM
"What?"
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"I mean…" He clears his throat, but it somehow only makes him sound more pathetic. "You’re just trying to use me, right? It’s… It was stupid to pretend otherwise. I know you’re just trying to use me. Like you always have… So if this is my only role… For you, or for the boss… Can’t I just get a little more out of it? Can’t you just… Put a little more into it?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 4:51 PM
"...What do you want, Carl?" She tries to be gentle. "I can't.. give you anything if you can't tell me what you need."
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"Do you love me? No-" He stops himself. "That’s… No. I wouldn’t… I wouldn’t stoop to that, that’s- That’s ridiculous. I- Um… I-" he clears his throat. "Can you… Tell me what to do to… Do that? To create that love and admiration? From everyone. I mean… I can’t be doing too bad, right? My world's been falling apart for a week and I only just hit rock bottom enough to be asking a girl. There’s… There’s gotta be a market for a guy like me, right? I mean, there’s a market for every kind of girl. You can make the most messed up girls in the world and she’ll still be able to selectively pick whatever guy she wants, right? Cause like… Women, you’re like built for that. No one teaches us guys how to feel wanted… So, y’know… I just… Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah… Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah… Yeah. It’s- Yeah. You get it, right? Yeah. ….Yeah."
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 5:21 PM
Oh god. Harriet thinks. "I... understand completely, Carl. Girls... really get everything they want handed to them on a silver platter, right? It's not fair. It must... it must be hard, living a kind of life with no appeal, knowing that no one will ever look at you the way you want to be looked at. I mean, they're offered up adoration for doing nothing but being sexless, ugly little things... and you put so much effort into your image... it's cruel. It's cruel, really, that no one will give you what you want... or need. And I can help you broaden your appeal, Carl, you just - need to be more confident. You need these women to need you, and for you to need them..." (edited)
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"The code is uh- It's..." He gives a series of number.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 5:28 PM
"Thank you, Carl. Really."
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He makes an awkward squirming noise and hangs up.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 5:40 PM
Harriet exhales. She types the code in.
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The elevator opens up into Maoziwam’s penthouse apartment.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 5:45 PM
Harriet cautiously wheels herself in, and analyzes her surroundings.
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It’s a large fancy apartment, but it feels almost like no one’s lived here in quite some time. Like the occupants of this house froze in place one day and the house hasn’t been touched since. Maoziwam’s personal office is visible.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 5:49 PM
Harriet wheels herself into Maoziwam's personal office and begins to look through his belongings.
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It’s locked.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 5:54 PM
Harriet frowns and begins to scour the room for places a key could be - the kitchen? The living room? His bedroom?
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Corpse Husband goes through the door and unlocks it from the inside.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 6:01 PM
"You're a real one, Corpse Husband," Harriet says, and pushes open the door.
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Shuichi Maoziwam's office is a strange cluttered mess of random dusty objects. His work desk is in the center of the room.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 6:07 PM
Harriet wheels herself to the work desk and checks that.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 6:16 PM
((i forgot to do it in the other channel whoops))
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Harriet finds the deed to Braun Fishery.
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 6:23 PM
Harriet texts Alexi "I found it"
6:23 PM
"With no help from u I should add"
6:23 PM
She wheels herself out in a hurry.
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'Fuck you' Alexi responds. The elevator doors open, and Shuichi Maoziwam steps out. He looks directly at Harriet. ((End session))
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Harriet Kadin 6/3/2023 6:31 PM
((oh nyooo))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 6/10/2023 1:37 PM
((Hey won’t be able to session today because I have a family outing thing))
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((Okay))
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((Saturday))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 6/24/2023 10:00 AM
((jsyk I’ll be a few hours late))
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Harriet Kadin 6/24/2023 2:05 PM
((i will still try to do itbut i may be in too much pain to focus))
2:05 PM
((and or at the er))
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((I hope you feel better bestie))
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Maoziwam stared at her suspiciously, before it slowly melted into depressive apathy. "…Ah. You’re Carl's secretary, aren’t you?"
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((I hope you feel better bestie))
Harriet Kadin 6/24/2023 6:00 PM
((CAN we reschedule for tomorrow I am free all day))
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((Sure I guess))
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 2:08 PM
Harriet pauses. "...Yes." she responds. (edited)
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"…What does he need?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 2:16 PM
Harriet blanks. Her throat is dry. Fear moves through her like a wild animal.
2:16 PM
"I'm worried about him." She says.
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He takes a moment to respond as if pondering something, but his expression doesn’t change. "…Don’t be. Carl Tucker is not a man worthy of anyone’s attention, let alone worry."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 2:22 PM
Harriet attempts to coax her face into something resembling concerning. "I know, I know, it's just... he keeps saying such strange things to me. And I thought... you could help, maybe? He looks up to you."
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He sighs and starts to walk towards the dining room. "What exactly has he been saying?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 2:29 PM
Harriet wheels herself alongside him. "Just various things about how.. lonely he is, and sad all the time, and the kind of man he wants to be, which's modeled very clearly off of you. But at the same time.. I think he resents you, very deeply. For having everything he doesn't - seemingly effortlessly. That resentment can't lead to good things, can it?"
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"…I don’t particularly care." He enters the dining room, which has 4 seats that seem to all be regularly cleaned. "Do you know how many people live here?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 2:40 PM
"...No?"
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"2. …Well, currently 3, but she’s an unwelcome guest. A few years ago, there were 4 of us. At the time, I also believed I had everything. I believed in the age old myth that with money, you can do absolutely anything you want. Unlike every other rich man in the world, I did not grow up with everything. I cheated my way to the top, as would many if they could. When I succeeded, I had so much I could not fathom what to do with it. Rich and poor, we are not designed to comprehend the other. Society built a barrier to separate us, to avoid crossing in between. But I saw above the clouds… And with it, I too believed. I believed in the endless treasure you poor fools were taught. But above, there is no reward. There is nothing to earn or to receive. No wisdom, no reward, simply complacency. A simple meaningless life where all believe they are above consequence and would delude themselves to no end to fit in. And in a single car accident, I lost everything that mattered. My wife and son both lie dead, and my daughter lives through delusions of grandeur that she will ever accomplish anything. If Carl wishes to resent me, so be it. In all senses, he is evil itself. An idiot of a man who does not rely on anything of his own, simply lives through other's fortunes. If he wishes to believe I have anything more than him in a way that matters, then let him. He deserves all accompanying pain."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 3:01 PM
Harriet's fingers tremble with poorly-restrained rage and terror in equal measure. "...So it's that he's a pushover."
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"If you wish to think of it that way. But most people are pushovers. They’ve been conditioned to believe they want what the people above them want. Money, fame, power. All of it is simply a means to an end. In a century, no one will remember the man who held several billion dollars. It is no accomplishment. He has taken from the world enough imaginary points to end world hunger, hurray. No one will celebrate this. No one will find it impressive. He will die like any man, woman, or child.… And his imaginary points will not follow him. All of this…" He waves all around. "It all means nothing. It’s a trick. A practical joke built to make you envy people who have no one to love them and desperately want the attention regardless."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 3:18 PM
Harriet sits back for a second, twisting his words over in her mind, the shape of them. "That's a remarkably communist sentiment for a big-shot CEO."
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"…Heh. I am not a communist either. Perhaps I agree with the notion that this world is meaningless… But fixing society is not a solution, much less in the way you suggest. Equality is an impossible dream. There will always be someone on top and someone on the bottom. Farcical ideas like that only seek to replace who is on top, not to eliminate them. Only a small percentage of the human population will ever be powerful… And most of them will never understand what it means to truly matter. As I am at the top currently, I would prefer this meaningless world over the expected meaningless world. I’m not a selfless man. But to you… the change would be meaningless. It’s not worth anyone’s effort to prop up your next dictator willingly."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 3:29 PM
Harriet stares at her hands. "..You know, I might not actually be a communist either. I think another version of me was supposed to be - but I'm not."
3:29 PM
"Sorry, was that a weird thing to say?"
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"It was."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 3:30 PM
"Sorry. Again."
3:30 PM
Harriet wants to hate herself for saying that. She can't muster up the energy. It's too cold.
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"You don’t have to apologize. Outside, I may project the appearance of someone who demands respect… But in my home I don’t bother to lie. I could not care less if you acted strange in my presence. Your existence has very little meaning to me."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 3:50 PM
Harriet laughs sourly. "That's more along the lines of what I had expected from you."
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"I’m not a particularly complex person. I’m simply knowledgeable. …And I must admit, it’s been quite some time since I had a real conversation in my own home."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 4:07 PM
"Were you looking for one?"
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He doesn’t answer.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 4:19 PM
Harriet sits in silence.
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"…Have you ever considered not working for Carl?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 4:33 PM
"Only briefly," Harriet says honestly.
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"I could have you transferred to a position that is far less demeaning. Perhaps even one with a higher pay. This is the first time anyones come to me for anything but their own self-interest."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 4:41 PM
Harriet pauses. "Would that mean.. leaving Carl behind?"
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"Evidently."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 4:49 PM
"..Can I have time to think about it?"
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"No. It was not a serious offer. Merely… A test."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 4:57 PM
"Did I pass or fail?"
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"...I don't know. Ultimately, it does not really matter. Your visit will affect nothing. The same goes for your choice."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:11 PM
"You could make some kind of poem out of this. There's a story there, right? To the.. abject loss of purpose. Me sitting on my fucking hands again."
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"I'm sorry. I don't know what I'm saying." (A lie.)
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"…I hate stories." He turns away from her. "That’s all you had to say, yes?"
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:16 PM
The fact of the matter is, Harriet thinks warily, is that her body is not a machine made to protect her. It is - poorly designed. Her lungs are flattened smushy lumps. Her stomach is a shriveled prune. Her spinal cord is a fucking marimba, the marrow of it smoothed out, jutting out of her ruined back like a goddamn xylophone, like rocks on the far-off shore, like - something. Anything else. There's some separation between the meat of her body and the cold electric weight of her brain, that wet galvanic symphony, that - fuck. Fuck, right? Her body is a room with all the lights turned off. And if she - conceptualizes it that way - thinks of her thumb slamming into the cartilage of her nose - it doesn't really matter, has utterly failed to matter, if her brain is cleft in two. There's a Harriet that wants to be good, and a Harriet that wants to be strong, and none of those Harriets are here right now. There's just her and the body. There's just me.
5:17 PM
Who is me, Harriet thinks almost desperately, but before she can expand on that - the strangeness of that thought, the narrative pivot - her memory melts away like soap. There is simply nothing there.
5:17 PM
"That's all," she says quietly, wondering why her heart's beating so fast.
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"..."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:21 PM
"...Do you need anything from me?"
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"No."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:25 PM
"...Okay." Harriet says carefully. "I'll... leave, then. It was nice to talk to you. Maybe."
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"Hm."
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:36 PM
"Well... bye." She says quietly, and attempts to leave.
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"...Thank you." He turns around.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:40 PM
Harriet leaves. As soon as she's out of sight, she immediately pulls out her phone.
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'Are you coming?' From Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:48 PM
"Coming," she types. "Got sidetracked."
5:48 PM
Harriet exits the building and immediately makes her way to Alexi's place.
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Alexi's place is in the same building.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 5:54 PM
((I forgot that because I am dumb))
5:54 PM
Harriet makes her way to Alexi's apartment.
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The door has been left unlocked. There's some arguing in a room in the back of the apartment.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 6:02 PM
Harriet wheels herself in. "..Alexi?" She says tentatively.
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No response, still just arguing in another room.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 6:14 PM
Harriet approaches the other room. "Alexi?" She says again.
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"Hello?" ???. "What?" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 6:20 PM
"...I have the document," is all Harriet can say, astonished.
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((Is she like. Going in?))
6:23 PM
"HELP ME!" ???.
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Ehn/PC
((Is she like. Going in?))
Harriet Kadin 6/25/2023 6:28 PM
((I meant she was going in yeah, sorry. Also I'm done for today))
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((Just give me a second more, trust me))
6:30 PM
??? is tied to a chair inside. Alexi is missing an eye and standing next to him.
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Avengard / harriet-and-unknown
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The second they see each other, both lose consciousness. ((End chapter))
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9: Anthropic Guilt
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Harriet is standing in the middle of a vast wasteland. She doesn’t recognize the area, but it’s certainly not anywhere near Avengard. Despite the fact she’s never experienced the feeling of the ground on her feet, or her feet at all for that matter, it feels like a natural sensation.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 2:18 PM
Harriet looks down at her legs in awe.
2:23 PM
She checks her body for any signs of oddness.
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It’s just her, standing. 2 small children walk into view as Harriet examines herself. Their faces are visible, but Harriet can’t seem to process them as if she were suffering from prosopagnosia. Despite this, Harriet can intuitively determine that one of the children is ???.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 2:31 PM
"Hello?" Harriet says tentatively.
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The 2 ignore her, and keep walking in her direction.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 2:37 PM
Harriet follows them, marveling at the sensation in her legs - so new, yet so familiar.
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They walk directly through Harriet, like she doesn’t exist. "Are we… There yet?" ???. "S-Sure… Just hold on, okay? Just a little more. You can’t give up." The other boy.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 2:39 PM
Harriet continues to follow.
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In between blinks, a small town seems to spring into existence in front of them. "…I can’t." ??? "What?" Boy. "I can’t feel… My body…" ???. "We’re almost there! Just hang on!" Boy. ??? falls over.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 2:48 PM
"...What?" Says Harriet, and continues to listen.
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"Come on! …Come on!" Boy. "…" ???. "Help! Someone help! Can anyone hear us!?" The boy screams.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 2:54 PM
Harriet tries to run to his side. "I'm here..! I'm here..."
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The boy turns and looks in Harriet’s direction. "Who… Are you?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:02 PM
"You can see me?" Harriet says. (edited)
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A teenage boy walks directly through Harriet and kneels down next to the 2. He lifts up ??? over his shoulder, and turns around towards Harriet. It’s somewhat hard to tell because of the age difference, but this man is undeniably Jeff Johnner. "Follow me."
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:16 PM
Harriet follows.
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The world goes dark for a moment. When it returns, Harriet is standing in a small bedroom. The young ??? is laying in the bed. "Hm…?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:26 PM
Harriet walks to his side.
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"Do you wish to tell him something?" I speak in a way even Harriet can perceive, but the voice does not come from anywhere tangible in this memory.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:32 PM
Harriet groans and places a hand to her head. She feels... strange, all of a sudden. Her body seizes again.
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"I don't know," she groans. "What's going on?"
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"You are witnessing what that person forgot. This was a slightly intended side-effect of your abilities.” Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:36 PM
"My abilities?" (edited)
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"Ah, of course… Ehn has avoided you, hasn’t she? She distributed abilities to people in Avengard. These abilities are stored in a physical object people wield. You and that person are exceptions to this, because your ability is stored in your own eyes." Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:41 PM
"I don't understand..." Harriet says. Then thinks, for a minute. "Are you the reason I keep beating the shit out of myself?"
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I don’t reward that with an answer.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:44 PM
Harriet bites down on her own hand, retching. The pain is increasing, in leaps and bounds, the wet sludge of her body misting over. Fuck. Fuck. There's nothing wrong with her that's divined by a greater power, is there? It's just her. She's just.. fundamentally broken, somehow.
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As soon as she thinks that, the thought melts. Perfect clarity replaces it - no. No. There is some God out there. Listening. Watching. Waiting for her to step out of line and beat her into submission, the sharp crack of leather, the workhorse, the eye, the line, the target. The whipping girl bends like a felled tree.
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Nothing is my fault, she thinks savagely. Nothing is my fault. The brokenness is my fault - the tenderness is my fault - but the cruelty is everyone else's fault. Her fault, that God up there, watching.
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"What am I supposed to do." Harriet says.
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"…Why do you think I’m god?" Me. ??? gets out of bed, and stumbles out of the room.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 3:49 PM
"I think someone is God," Harriet says, choosing her words carefully. "I think there was an old God, and a new God came from the old god, in a white room, a long time ago. And you might be the new God. Or it might be someone else. But there is a God, because the alternative is..."
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Harriet trails off. She does not say - because the alternative is that I chose this. The alternative is that the only reason why I am here right now and dying and the only reason why I was almost -
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The only reason why I was almost.
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The only reason why I was almost - - - - - is because I walked myself here on my own two broken legs.
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"Because." She finishes.
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You can't hide reality from me. But I spare Harriet from hearing that thought, and allow the memory to continue as ??? walks out onto the street. A full busy town is hard at work like any other day. ??? internally wishes they'd stop and pretend to care about him, but he's never seen any of these people in his life. Their words would be meaningless to him. Instead, the next words he speaks are "Am I alive?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 4:01 PM
Harriet watches, her throat dry.
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No one stops to pay attention to the child. ??? thus runs directly into someone, causing them both to fall over. He stares at his hands and at the fallen person for a moment, before speaking again. "I'm real. ...I'm real." He stumbles back to his feet and runs directly into the crowd, pushing people out of the way.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 4:09 PM
"Me too," Harriet says quietly, and follows.
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??? gets on a higher platform and shouts. "Where am I!? Where is my brother!? What happened to me!?" "Shut up!" The locals groan at this display, but don't interfere beyond this.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 4:12 PM
Harriet watches.
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??? starts picking up small objects and throwing them at people. "Enough! What the hell is your problem?" Johnner approached him. ??? throws something at him. "Are you braindead or something? You finally wake up and you pull this?" Johnner.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 4:19 PM
Watches.
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"Where am I!?" ???. "You're in Fleshak. Your brother is out playing with friends. You've been sleeping for a few months. Are you satisfied?" Johnner. "Liar!" ??? poses confidently. "You can't sleep that long. A healthy amount of sleep is only 10 hours." "I hate kids." Johnner sighs.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 4:27 PM
Watches.
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"I am not a kid!" ???. "You want to find your brother, right? Come on." Johnner grabbed ??? by the arm and forcefully dragged him. "Let me go! Let me go! I'm gonna have you arrested!" ??? Johnner internally suppresses the desire to tell the young child to kill himself. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 4:41 PM
Harriet watches.
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Johnner drags him to a small public park where several children are playing. ???'s brother notices him and stares in awe. "You're... Awake?" "(censored)!" ??? calls out his brother's name, but this name has been suppressed. Johnner lets him go, so ??? runs to his brother and hugs him.
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Harriet Kadin 7/3/2023 4:50 PM
((sorry to cut it short a little early but i need to go))
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((That's fine see ya))
4:54 PM
((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:02 PM
((gonna have to be a short session today))
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((Alright))
2:09 PM
The scene changes. Johnner and the 2 children are eating some kind of meal at a table. There’s also an older woman, presumably Johnner’s mother. No one’s saying anything yet.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:09 PM
Harriet continues to watch.
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"Where are… Mom and dad?" ???. No one answers. "Where are they?" ??? says again, more forcefully. "…They’re gone." His brother answers. Silence. "They… They couldn’t make it out. It’s just us. They’re dead." The brother laughs miserably for a moment. "…They’re just gone." Silence.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:15 PM
Harriet's beginning to get the feeling that this might be important.
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"Haha, that’s… Good joke. Seriously, where are they?" ??? laughs it off too hard. Silence. "They’re dead, (censored). I’m not much of a comedian." The brother. ??? stares at him in shock. "Uh… Change of subject. You’re here now, right? This town is safe. Everyone here’s gonna live long and prosper, y’know? No need to uh… To be so grim." Johnner couldn’t hide the discomfort on his face.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:24 PM
"..Hello?" Harriet says helplessly, in spite of herself.
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"They won't hear you. You're simply a spectator." I explain. "I don't even know who the hell you are! Stop lying to me! Where are they!?" ???. "Don't be stubborn here..." Johnner sighs. "Crying can't do a single thing. Beg to any god you want, nothing's ever gonna change. You just gotta live and move on. Like your brother did. It doesn't bother him anymore." The brother gives the floor a hollow stare. "...He's right. I've moved past it."
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:37 PM
"I really can't do anything?" Harriet says helplessly. "Then what's - what's the point?"
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"Watching." I say this. ??? grabs his brother by the shoulders forcefully. "You... You asshole! Don't their lives mean anything to you?" His brother stares at him back with the same hollow gaze. "Aren't you gonna cry about it at least? Come on... They raised us! You owe them for that!" ???. "I don't think... I can." Brother. "Huh?" ???. "I can't... Cry anymore." His brother isn't even staring at him, just thin air. "Mikhail is right... Nothing can save them. We just have to move on." "But we need them!" ???. "I just... Need you." Brother. ??? lets his brother go and sinks down to his knees crying.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:49 PM
"I don't understand..." Harriet says. "I want to help." (edited)
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"Why?" I ask.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:54 PM
"Because... Isn't that what I'm supposed to do?" Harriet says, eyebrows pulled taut. "Someone's in pain. I fix it.” (edited)
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"You can't fix pain. No matter how hard you try, people will always suffer." I continue.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 2:58 PM
"That's such bullshit," Harriet scoffs. "If you - if you can give me these powers in the first place, this voyeurism, why can't you give me more? I'd take anything out of me, I'd rob myself blind, just for a chance to fix the problem. I feel - I have to fix the problem. And this is... and this is so much. Suffering like this isn't normal, not - for them."
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"Just a few days ago, he used you like a toy. One to hurt for his own amusement. And you'd still want to save him?" Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 3:07 PM
Harriet stares, distraught. "He's weak. He needs me. He doesn't have anyone else."
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"Regardless, this is the past. It has already happened. You can’t change it." Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 3:14 PM
"..Alright," Harriet says quietly. "Just show me, then."
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The scene changes again. His brother and a few friends are playing in a park again. ??? is sitting on the sidelines, watching. His brother approaches him. "(censored)? What's wrong?" "..." ???. "(censored)?" Brother. "...I can't stop thinking about them. I'm not... Ready to live without them." ???. "...Oh." Brother. "I wish I could... Forget them. Like you did." ???. "No. I didn't... I didn't forget them. No matter what, we can't forget them... Or it'll be like they never existed. No matter what... We can't ever move past them." Brother. "Do you know where this takes place?" Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 3:24 PM
"I'm.. not sure." Harriet says.
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"Europe. Or some part of it, at least. An entirely different continent from Avengard. How do you think they reached you?" Me. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 3:36 PM
Harriet frowns. "I don't know. Is this a trick question or something?"
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"I just enjoy predictions. My usual audience is kind of toxic." Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 3:40 PM
"What a weird thing to say."
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"...Sorry." Me. The scene changes. Johnner and ??? are alone, in a dark alleyway. "Grow up, kid! People die, you move on. You're never gonna live again if you just keep thinking about what you've lost. When you lose something, you've just gotta do everything you can to replace it." Johnner. "Leave me alone..." ???. "I'm trying to help you! You're just hurting yourself!" Johnner. "You don't know what it's like to lose someone! I can't just... I can't just forget..." ???. "What? Do you want me to like... Hit you so hard you forget? I think that's just a fictional idea." Johnner. "Why would you assume that's what I mean!?" ???.
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 3:49 PM
Harriet watches.
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"I'm trying to help you, kid... You're the only one here who's suffering." Johnner. "That seems rather unlikely." Shuichi Maoziwam himself, still a young adult, walked into the alleyway. "Suffering seems to be a rather default state of the human condition." "Who... Are you?" ???. "My name is Shuichi Maoziwam. Naturally, I don't expect you to have heard of me, but I'm an American citizen on a trip to see the world. You must be thinking to yourself... 'Ah, a tourist?'. But no, I am not so simple a man as to simply take a tour of your nation. I'm not rich enough to do that either. What I seek lies beyond a mere tourist destination, but with it's humble people. I shall be staying in the area for a while." Shuichi gave a condescending smirk. Everything about the way he presented himself made him seem powerful and impressive. "You 2 young men seem to be having some sort of disagreement? What exactly might the issue be? I've been considered to be quite the problem solver in my life."
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Harriet Kadin 7/8/2023 4:09 PM
((have to go now, sorry abt the short session))
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((It's alright. You don't exactly me much when I'm just rambling a backstory at you))
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((Saturday))
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((Hi))
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2023 2:54 PM
((SORRY I FELL ASLEEP))
2:54 PM
((might be a short session today + might have to break in the middle of it whoops))
2:54 PM
Harriet waits and listens.
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Johnner looks at Shuichi, baffled. "He lost his family recently. I’m trying to help him move on." ??? looks away. "And that required a violent treatment? Are you some kind of animal. Well… Fear not. For I am like a god of compassion." Shuichi gave an arrogant smirk. "I shall care for this child in your stead." "You… Will?" Johnner. "Do you doubt me?" Shuichi.
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Harriet Kadin 7/15/2023 3:06 PM
Watches.
3:09 PM
((hey REALLY sorry i completely forgot abt dnd today and i have a ton of shit i need to do all day that i put off bc i was working 😭 can we reschedule))
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((Sure))
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((Saturday))
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"…Yes? How would I not?" Johnner. Shuichi approached ??? and kneeled down next to him. "Young man, take all the time you need to recuperate. You shall rise to your feet on your own once more, unrestricted by the misery of loss. You shall see the beauty of life once more." ??? very visibly does not understand what that means. "…Okay." "Wow… You did it." Johnner is impressed. "Naturally." Shuichi.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 2:11 PM
Harriet watches.
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The scene changes to the 2 brothers, Johnner, and Shuichi all having dinner together as Shuichi boastfully talks. Similar scenes flash by one after another, not producing anything particularly eventful. The simple premise is simply that ??? recovers and the 4 grow closer, a fairly dull development. "Shall I skip ahead to the next point of interest?" I ask.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 2:20 PM
Harriet pauses and thinks for a minute. “Alright.”
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The village is now on fire, and people are screaming out in pain.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 2:27 PM
“Oh, wow.” Harriet says, taken aback.
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??? runs frantically, without clear direction or purpose. He passes by Johnner, who’s crying on his knees. Instead of stopping, he just keeps running.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 2:44 PM
Harriet follows after them.
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And then, somehow, ??? finds an incomprehensible sound. A calm and joyous humming, throughout the disastrous scene. Somehow, it feels more unsettling than anything else. ??? slowly makes his way towards it.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 2:52 PM
Harriet follows.
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Shuichi Maoziwam walks through the streets, pouring gasoline everywhere. ??? lets out a shocked scream.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:03 PM
"What the fuck..?" Harriet says, confused.
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Shuichi doesn’t notice the scream. He’s wearing ear plugs. Instead, he tosses the empty gasoline container to the side and turns to look at the scene. He lights a cigarette and simply stares for a moment. ??? in turn stares at him silently.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:10 PM
Harriet watches, holding her breath.
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This scene continues, nearly unmoving, until Shuichi finishes his cigarette. He raises his arms in some sort of mock prayer and speaks. "May your souls Rest In Peace. I will not forget your sacrifices." A smirk forms on his face. "God has seen you, and accepted you into the heavens for your sacrifices." He bows, and walks away from the ruins.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:22 PM
"What...?" Harriet says.
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??? runs back into town.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:27 PM
Harriet follows him.
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There doesn’t seem to be anyone left alive. ??? slowly makes his way through the ruins, heading back home.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:31 PM
"What on earth happened here?" Harriet asks.
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"A selection. It was in these ruins that Shuichi Maoziwam created the basis for his empire. Such is the endless ambition tied to the Maoziwam name." Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:43 PM
"And I.. sympathized with him for a bit, too." Harriet says sourly.
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"Do not. Shuichi Maoziwam is a vile man. He deserves no sympathy from anyone." Me.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:52 PM
Harriet snorts. "I don't particularly want God to tell me who or who not I'm allowed to feel empathy towards."
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"Who else should decide morality?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 3:59 PM
Harriet runs her tongue over her teeth. "Well, it's all very individualist, isn't it? I'd like it to be me."
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??? arrives home. In the collapsed remains is someone who’s still breathing, but clearly in pain. ??? tries to lift up the rubble off of them.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:04 PM
Harriet bends down to watch.
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As ??? does this, he hears a cough from behind him. He turns around and finds his brother crawling, clearly hurt. ??? drops the rubble and runs towards his brother. The person dies. It makes an unforgettable noise.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:07 PM
Harriet winces. "Fuck."
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??? hugs his brother. The scene changes to a hospital room. ???'s brother is in the bed, staring intensely at nothing. ??? grips his hand.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:17 PM
Harriet watches.
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The scene proceeds in fast forward, across days and nights. But neither of them seem to move. Eventually, ??? speaks. "…Maoziwam did it." His brother finally turns to him, slowly. "…What?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:22 PM
Harriet watches.
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"He did it… All of that." ???. "Where is… Where is he now?" Brother. "America." ???. His brother gets out of the bed and shakily tries to leave.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:26 PM
Harriet watches.
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Obviously, they did not simply fly to America right then and there. It took years for them to make it there. But evidently, they did make it. And in the next scene, the brothers stand in Avengard together.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:37 PM
Harriet watches.
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??? reads the news. Somehow, Johnner beat them here. He’s even started a criminal empire in the city. "What’s the plan?" ???. "…We burn him down. Everything Shuichi Maoziwam has. We burn him to the ground." Brother. "But he has… A lot." ???.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:42 PM
"That's an understatement," Harriet mutters.
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"Then… We start big. He has a wife, right?" Brother. "That’s…" ??? looks at his brother expectantly, but stops. "Yeah."
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 4:53 PM
Harriet frowns, but keeps watching.
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"I stole this gun, earlier." The brother shows off a pistol. "We’re going to kill her." ??? frowns, but nods. The scene changes to Carmen Maoziwam sitting alone at a restaurant, while the brothers stealthily approach her.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 5:07 PM
"I really don't want to watch this," Harriet says nervously.
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They approach closer… and closer… and closer. Until a gunshot rings out. But it’s not one of the brothers, it’s a security guard. It misses, but it still does it’s job. The 2 brothers run away in a panic, and Carmen Maoziwam lives to die in a car crash.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 5:10 PM
"Why are you showing this?" Harriet asks. "What do you expect me to get out of this?"
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The scene changes to them hidden again. "…He’s too rich. Too powerful. We can’t… We can’t hurt him yet." ???. "We just… We just have to rely on what we do know. Johnner. I’ll… I’ll go to him." Brother.
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Harriet Kadin 7/22/2023 5:15 PM
((gotta go))
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((Alright. Sorry for dragging you through this))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 1:39 PM
((Gonna be around half an hour late))
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((Ok))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 2:36 PM
Harriet watches.
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"Johnner? Are you sure he’ll listen?" ???. "I’ll figure it out, okay? I can do this." Brother. "…Alright. I trust you. But don’t get yourself hurt." ???. "I know… We’re all we have left, right?" The brother turned to leave.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 2:45 PM
Harriet watches.
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The scene changes, but still in the same area. The brother returns. "He didn’t even recognize me. That son of a bitch!" He kicks something over. "So… That’s it? We fail? Shuichi gets off free?" ???. "No… We just have to start off smaller." The brother sits down. "If Johnner’s going to be our enemy too, we just have to start with him. We watch his actions, and we strike at some weak point." "Are you… Sure?" ???. "Yeah." His brother doesn’t face him.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 2:57 PM
Harriet watches. That's all she can do, isn't it?
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A few scenes go by of the brothers spying on Jeff Johnner. Eventually they come across him meeting with this man.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:08 PM
Harriet frowns, but continues to watch.
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Their conversation isn’t clear, but the brothers have never seen this man before so they choose to follow him this time. He heads to a normal house in Shelk and doesn’t do anything noteworthy. But when he arrives, a young girl is visible inside. Harriet experiences a strange deja-vu at this child.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:12 PM
Harriet grimaces and clutches her head, but continues to watch.
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FB shuts the door, and the brothers move away from his home. "That wasn’t helpful." ???. "But it could be." Brother. "What? How?" ???. "An old man and a child. Johnner will have to get involved if we take one of them… And demand money." Brother.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:17 PM
Harriet watches.
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"Kidnapping? But that’s…" ???. "We just tried to murder someone. I think we can be fine with kidnapping. We won’t hurt her or anything." His brother speaks bitterly. ??? sighs, and looks away.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:23 PM
Harriet watches, feeling a soft surge in her stomach, uncomfortable. Something about this feels so familiar.
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The scene changes. The brothers are in a windowless van, watching as FB and his daughter walk out of the old Edlightenment building, which is currently filled with people. The 2 drive slightly behind them, waiting for an opening.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:26 PM
Harriet wants to put her hands over eyes, but something compels her not to. She watches.
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The van pulls to a stop, and the 2 run out. They quickly snatch the kid from the man's arms and rush into the van. FB is unable to fight back.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:31 PM
Harriet shudders. Disgust crawls over her like a live animal.
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They get in the van, and drive off. The young girl looks at Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:39 PM
((is harriet being like, dragged along beside the van, or in the van, or ?))
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((In the van))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:44 PM
Harriet looks at her, eyes wide. "Can you see me?"
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"…Yes? Who are you?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:47 PM
"My name is Harriet. I'm.. in the past, I think."
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She looks around. "I thought it was a car."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 3:54 PM
Harriet frowns. "I'm.. in the past, in a car."
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It’s actually a van. "What does that mean?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:02 PM
"It's hard to explain." Harriet glances at the driver, trying to tell if he's weirded out by this little girl speaking into thin air at all.
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They’re not paying attention.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:08 PM
Harriet turns back to her. "What's your name?"
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"I’m not… Supposed to share it with strangers."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:13 PM
"I'm sorry, I just - want to help you. Do you understand what's happening to you right now?"
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"I’m being taken somewhere."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:15 PM
"You're - you're being kidnapped. Do you realize this?"
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"…Again?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:19 PM
"..How often does this happen to you?" (edited)
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She doesn’t answer.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:23 PM
Harriet tries to coax her face into something resembling approachability and kindness. She's so fucking vulnerable, she thinks, with a wave of revulsion washing over her, abject disgust. All kids are. Done up in her fucking ribbons, all demure, like that's going to get her anywhere, this cold complacency, this dullness. Something sputters.
4:24 PM
Harriet slaps herself - quick, sudden. The motion, once-unfamiliar, has, she realizes all of a sudden, become therapeutic. There's a beauty in the violence that wasn't there - the system of punishment and discipline.
4:24 PM
"I'm sorry. I want.. to try and help you." Harriet says carefully, nursing her aching jaw.
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"…Why?"
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:36 PM
"Because... you're in a bad situation? And.. that's what I do. I - I help." (edited)
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"That’s not true."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:44 PM
"What do you mean?"
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"You’re not… Real."
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:48 PM
Harriet frowns. "I- I am real. I am."
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She reaches out through Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:51 PM
Harriet gasps and attempts to touch her own skin.
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Harriet feels herself.
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 4:58 PM
((Gonna have to stop here because it’s storming really bad and the power’s out))
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((Alright))
4:58 PM
((Ily bye))
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Harriet Kadin 7/29/2023 5:00 PM
((ily2 oomfie byeee))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2023 3:15 AM
((i cannot session today on account of being in ireland))
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2023 6:57 AM
((actually i’m not sure because of the time difference i might be available i’ll lyk))
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Harriet feels herself.
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Harriet Kadin 8/5/2023 2:08 PM
((i CANNOT sorry))
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((Alright. Can you do a makeup session sometime then))
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((Saturday if you can’t))
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((Let me know as soon as you can session))
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Harriet Kadin 8/15/2023 5:47 PM
((Tomorrow))
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((Yippee))
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Harriet feels herself.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 2:05 PM
"What..?"
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"Are you a ghost?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 2:23 PM
"I don't think I am."
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"Why not?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 2:25 PM
"Well, I.. haven't died."
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"Oh."
2:28 PM
"What do you think happens when you die?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 2:34 PM
"Um... you go to heaven if you're good, and hell if you're bad, I think. It's complicated."
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"…I don’t want to go to hell." The van pulls to a stop.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 2:38 PM
Harriet frowns, her lips tugging downwards. "Well, don't worry. You're not the kind of person who goes to hell."
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"Who is, then?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 2:51 PM
"Me. But I'm not there yet, okay?"
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"Okay." ??? opens the door, and the scene changes. The brothers are back in their little hideout, nervous.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 2:56 PM
Harriet watches.
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"Are you… Sure that was a good idea?" ???. "What else would we have done? Leave things as they are?" His brother sighs. "…It’s not like we hurt anyone." "But… She’s just a kid." ???. "A kid who’s clearly in with the wrong people. If anything, we’ve clearly helped her by taking her away from them." Brother. "But… We’re gonna give her back, aren’t we? In exchange for the ransom?" ???. "…" Brother. "Aren’t we?" ???.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 3:05 PM
"Fuck," Harriet says under her breath, and keeps watching.
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"…Of course we are." The brother finally responds. "Otherwise, we’d only be stuck with a liability and no money." "So that defence doesn’t work. We’re not saving her from anything, just putting her in temporary danger." ??? "Does it matter?" Brother. "I’m just… I’m just saying- I don’t really feel comfortable doing this." ???. "We apparently didn’t deserve a stable home, why does she?" His brother blurts out.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 3:12 PM
Harriet watches.
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"…What?" ???. "…S-Sorry." His brother sighs and sits down. "I don’t… This is just getting to me." "No, it’s… It’s fine. I’ll stick with you. We’ve got each other, right?" ???. "…Right." The brother pulls out a phone. "I’ll call him now. Arrange the exchange."
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 3:21 PM
Harriet watches.
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He takes the phone and calls. "…Hello? Who is this?" Johnner picks up, but the brother remains completely silent for some reason. ??? takes a deep breath and grabs the phone. "We have the girl. Give us 2 million dollars or you’ll never see her again."
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 3:32 PM
Harriet watches.
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"…It’s you." Johnner replies. The scene changes.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 3:41 PM
Harriet keeps watching.
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??? is panicking alone as his brother rushes in. "They’re here." "Shit…" ??? peeks out of the door to see several cars outside, as Johnner gets out of one with a gun. "Do you have a plan to get us out of here?" "…Something like that." ???'s brother puts a gun to his head.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 3:54 PM
Harriet watches.
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"Wh… What?" ???. "…" His brother drags him outside in front of Johnner. "Here. Your kidnapper." Johnner examines them carefully. “…Huh. Whadda ya know?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 4:06 PM
Harriet watches.
4:06 PM
This does not look good, she thinks idly to herself.
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"What’s going on?" ???. "What can I say…? I’m loyal to Johnner. Right?" His brother laughs. "You motherfucker!" ???, shocked, tries to grab his brother’s throat, but is instead hit in the back of the head by Johnner. "…Guess so." Johnner.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 4:08 PM
It's shocking how easy it is to disconnect from the emotional reality of the situation when she has no say in it, Harriet thinks.
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"What’s going to happen to him?" Brother. "Well… We’ve got some ideas." Johnner says, as the scene changes. ??? is strapped to what looks like a surgical bed. A few unfamiliar people are standing next to him, with FB among them.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 4:18 PM
Harriet watches.
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"Haha-Ha! So this is the first subject in the brilliant adventures of TAP?" Blond hair. "Second, by technicality. That young girl was given to us as well." Brown hair. "Does it really matter, CR?" The blue haired guy says this to the brown haired one. "These small details tend to matter, yes." Brown hair.
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 4:27 PM
"H..what?" Harriet says.
4:27 PM
((hey gotta go. we can resume tmrw if u still wanna play catchup))
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((Yes please. Shouldn't be too much more))
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Harriet Kadin 8/16/2023 4:28 PM
((Awesome))
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"Wh-What…?" ???. "Are you all done here? I believe it’s I get to work." FB.
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Harriet Kadin 8/17/2023 2:08 PM
"I don't understand what's happening right now," Harriet says.
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"TAP awaaaaay!" The blond guy leaves. "I did not require your permission to leave." CR readjusts his classes. "But yes, LM. Let’s go." He says this to the blue haired one and leaves. LM, presumably, nods and follows him out. "Wait! Wait! Someone help meeeee!" ???.
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Harriet Kadin 8/17/2023 2:16 PM
Harriet watches, deeply confused.
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"Allow me to make this simple. No one is going to help you." FB grabs a scalpel. "W-Wait… I’ll do anything! Is this about your daughter? I didn’t want to do that! H-He pushed me I didn’t-" ???. "Shhhh." FB makes a shushing motion, and ??? shuts up. "Don’t worry, I am not a violent person. I have no intention of hurting you or anyone else. I am simply serving as a cog, much the same as you are."
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Harriet Kadin 8/17/2023 2:22 PM
Harriet tries to look away. She doesn't want to see this, she doesn't want to be a part of this, she doesn't want to be this.
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"What… What are you doing then?" ???. "Helping you. …In a sense. You are about to take part in a project designed to arrive at the very core of human existence." FB. "…Breathing?" ???. "No, of course not. Naturally, I’m referring to… Memory." FB.
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Harriet Kadin 8/17/2023 2:25 PM
Harriet splays her fingers out slightly, and watches between the cracks.
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"Memory?" ???. "It defines everything about us. Who we are, what we do… Is entirely brought upon by what we have lived through. We are all simply what we have been nurtured to be. Stripped of that, all people are the same. It is the arrogance of humanity that some choose to believe otherwise." FB. "What does… That mean?" ???. "It means I am going to erase you. All of you… And create a greater person in your stead." FB.
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Harriet Kadin 8/17/2023 2:34 PM
Harriet quietly mouths "what the fuck" to herself.
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??? is shocked as well. "Do not worry. Though you will die in any sort of spiritual sense, as the process is perfect… When we have finished you will become a perfect person. One without flaw and whom truly understands." FB. ??? starts to cry. "…I’m sorry." "There is nothing to apologize for." FB places the scalpel to the side of ???'s face. "After all, I do not even have a daughter." He starts cutting.
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Harriet Kadin 8/17/2023 2:40 PM
"Fuck-!" Harriet says, and looks away.
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Painful agonizing screams ring out for a while, as Harriet looks away.
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Harriet Kadin 8/17/2023 2:42 PM
Harriet shudders and waits for it to be over.
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The scene changes once again, but not much has changed now. ???'s face is covered in bandages and FB is standing next to them. Standing next to Harriet is another ???, who seems to be capable of seeing her. (( #harriet-and-unknown this Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 2:09 PM
Harriet stares, astonished.
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"Why are you standing?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 2:21 PM
"That's a great question," Harriet says flatly.
2:21 PM
"I don't have an answer."
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"You are now born anew." FB says this. "What? Let me go." ???.
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 2:23 PM
"I don't understand why I need to see this," Harriet says.
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"I don't understand why the hell you're here."
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 2:58 PM
"My job, apparently, is to bear witness to an awful lot of terrible shit while able to do nothing about it."
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"Are you good at it?"
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"Soon you will be born once again as your perfect self. But we have not reached there, quite yet. For now, we shall experiment with a blank slate." FB. "Let me go! I don’t know what you’re talking about!" ???.
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:03 PM
"What happened to you?" Harriet says.
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I stare at Harriet. "......That's not me." (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:04 PM
Harriet frowns. "Who is it, then?"
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It is quite unmistakably ???.
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"I don't know???"
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:06 PM
"Forgive me for not believing you."
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"Oh. Are you truly so hostile? I suppose a baby who possesses the English language might not be so different." FB. "Shut up! Let me go!" ???.
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"I hate that person!"
3:16 PM
I stand still for a moment. "Wait, what?"
3:16 PM
"Um... Listen, do you know a way out of here?" (edited)
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This creepy looking person enters the room. "Now, FB... Were you truly so unready?"
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"Um... Listen, do you know a way out of here?" (edited)
Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:20 PM
"I've sort of been.. stuck, here, for the last few hours.. just watching things that've already happened. I talked to God, but it didn't do much good. Prayer with bloody hands doesn't get me anywhere..." Harriet mumbles, drifting off into near-incoherency.
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"I'm the same. I did the same thing.
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"God? You mean Jeff's boss?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:24 PM
Harriet frowns. "I don't know who they were."
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"He's "the perfect person", apparently."
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:27 PM
"What's his name?"
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"...God?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:29 PM
"No, Jeff's boss."
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"SM? Is something wrong?" FB. "No. I just wanted to speak to him." SM, supposedly, walks over to the other ??? and whispers. "Gods truly do exist." "What?" ???.
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:32 PM
"What?"
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"Say it back." SM. ??? whispers. "Gods... Truly do exist."
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:34 PM
"His full name can't seriously be God."
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"Why wouldn't it be?"
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"Her name is Ehn." SM smiles sinisterly. "And you're going to help me kill her." A small white semi-transparent animal enters the room, and the world goes fully black.
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((That's the end of chapter 9))
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10: Advanced Gaming
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The 2 awaken in separate small cages in the center of what looks like a storage room. ??? recognizes this room. Harriet can't stand anymore though.
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"Get over here."
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:38 PM
"I'm in a cage and my legs don't work."
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"Crawl."
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:43 PM
"They're seperate cages." Harriet says fiercely, then nearly blinds herself with the force of her hand smacking against her face. Fuck. She thought she was over that.
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"Crawl through!!"
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:50 PM
"What's wrong with you?" Harriet says, and nearly gives herself a black eye in the process. "Go kill yourself or something, I can't handle this right now -"
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"Kill... myself? What?" (edited)
3:55 PM
"Why are you punching yourself?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 3:56 PM
"It's sort of a recurring problem."
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"I saw that."
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"What are you going to do about the cage, then?" (edited)
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"Just sleep here forever like a baby?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 4:06 PM
"Wait to wake up," Harriet says stubbornly. "I always do. In the end I always wake up."
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"You're not sleeping."
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 4:23 PM
"I wasn't sleeping before, either, when I met with you." Harriet says. "I still woke up."
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Harriet Kadin 8/19/2023 4:34 PM
((Gotta go))
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Several people walk in, including Dana Craig, Ariel May, and Lelouch Maoziwam. ((End session))
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Hu….h…? I look around the room frantically. Yes, I’m fucking frantic now, fine! There was… supposed to… Hey, wait, this is the room from… My eyes stop on him. That fucking guy!!! “YOU!” I point my gun at him. This disgusting, amnesiac, walking dead to rights—Why… after all this time…. No, no, if he’s locked up, I should… I, it’s… The one at fault, I mean, logically, I’m, I should be asking, towards… I turn around quickly, pointing my gun at the red-haired man. “GORDOOOOON! What the FUCK IS THIS?! YOU SAID HE WAS HERE AND ALONE, DIDN’T YOU?! DID YOU THINK YOU COULD CHEAT ME? IS THAT THE KIND OF SAP YOU TAKE ME FOR?”
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"Gordon!? What? Where??"
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The green haired girl looks at ??? and then back to Dana. "Wait, you know him too?" Gordon raises his hands in the air defensively. "He's in a cage, and probably lost his memory again. I didn't think it counted."
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“That’s not what I asked!” I continue aiming at him.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:04 PM
Harriet Kadin has no idea what the fuck is going on. No one ever tells her anything.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:04 PM
Lelouch lelouches next to green-haired girl.
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"Hi!" Ariel May says hi to Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:05 PM
"Uh, hi?" Harriet says. "Who are you? What's happening? You're very pink."
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“Shut the fuck up, Ariel! I’m—there’s only one fucking reason I came here, why is he not here? How was your intelligence inept enough to misplace—misidentify, the, to…” I’m fucking
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:06 PM
"Why am I in a cage." Harriet says flatly.
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"We've only checked one room. Nothing confirms he's not here." Gordon says this and then turns to Harriet. "A friend of yours threw a grenade at Johnner's face. He didn't take it well."
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:08 PM
Harriet frowns. "I see there's some kind of, um, hugely emotional dramatic thing happening here - related to your, uh, various personal neuroses - but I honestly don't think I need to be here right now. This doesn't - involve me, I want to be - seperate from whatever deranged bullshit is happening right now, cleanly severed - fuck."
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Right. Right, of course. There’s more places. I knew this. Just wanted to see if I could catch him off guard. “This is the kind of thing—If you know there’s other people, then you mention it…!” I look at the woman I don’t know. “What are you fucking talking about?”
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"Ms Lelouch? Should I spray her?" Green haired girl.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:09 PM
"Uh- Absolutely!" Lelouch's guard is up up up.
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“Why, with the perfume…” I sigh at this irrelevant detail.
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"Look.... I didn't think you'd run into him. He's basically just a child inside. I don't like him, but don'rt hurt him." Gordon. Jade sprays Harriet with perfume.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:11 PM
"Way to go Jade!" Lelouch cheers on for a task that doesn't really deserve it.
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“You—what do you mean, ‘personal neuroses’?! Are you looking down on me?!” Eyes wide open, I ignore Gordon for now and stare at the new woman. I’m—I’m only perturbed, because…. I just, it’s trying to stop her from… um… Dana Craig stares at the person in question with eyes that look on the verge of tears, devotedly playing the part of rage. She’s running on fumes right now, and she knows it. But acknowledging this beyond the bare minimum would topple an entire house of cards.
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I stare around at everyone in here. "You..." I look at the girl spouting nonsense. "Is your name Dana?"
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“Shut the fuck up, Jay! I have bigger fish to fry!”
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:16 PM
Harriet squints up at the strange woman standing above her. "Sorry - I wasn't looking down on you. I'm not really allowed to do that anymore, which is a stupid thing to hear and an even stupider thing to try and explain, but - you have a gun. And I - I can help, somehow. This situation is - salvageable, right?" Harriet's breathing is heavy. "I can rectify it. I'm really, really good at defusing tension."
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"Fish... fish? Do you know Hav Kerloe?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:17 PM
"And I'm not dangerous, either. If you let me out of the cage I'll just be prime meat, see? My legs don't work. I can be the whipping girl."
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“What the fuck are you talking about? Don’t get me involved in—-euuuurgh! You fucking pervert!” I don’t even know. E-Everyone’s an enemy. I look everywhere. Shit.
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"Hav? How the hell do you remember his name?" Gordon.
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"I don't want to talk to you, you traitor!" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:19 PM
Harriet frowns. "It's not a sex thing. Anymore. From this point on it's not a weird sex thing, not that it ever was - fuck. I'm - looking in other directions, right now." She shifts her eyes up to Jade.
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Jade tries to open Harriet's cage and fails. "There's a key, it's probably around here somewhere. You 3, go look for it in this room."
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:21 PM
"Don't worry, faithful maiden. We'll find a way to get you out!" Lelouch seems more focused on the fact that Harriet's in a cage than whatever the fuck's going on with Dana and ???.
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“What? Huh? I….” I mean, ‘you three’ could refer to any combination of people. Probably not me. I don’t understand why I’d— this isn’t a rescue mission. Who even is this? I continue to stand here worthlessly.
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Ariel and Gordon look around the room.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:22 PM
"Hey- Jade told you to search for a key, so search for a key!" Lelouch says this to Dana.
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"Did you put me in this cage, Gordon?"
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"Well, I didn't oppose it." Gordon.
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“GGGEEAGH!” I hold my head. “I hate you! I fucking hate you!” I back up into some corner of the room to incidentally see if I can spot a key there.
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((Roll))
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((8))
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Dana finds nothing. "I found her wheelchair." Gordon brings back a wheelchair. "Dana, look over here!" Ariel calls out to her. She's standing in front of some kind of desk.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:24 PM
Lelouch does not attempt to search for a key, instead looking at the woman in the cage. "So, what's your name?" (edited)
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“Huh?” I look over to Ariel.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:25 PM
"Harriet," Harriet says, bulwarked by the attention. "And yours?"
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Ariel lifts up a paintbrush. "There's some other stuff in here, too."
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:26 PM
"Lelouch. Lelouch Maoziwam!" She says the first name with more emphasis than the surname. "Who locked you in this cage? Was it a guy? Guys will do that, they're pigs." (edited)
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“Oh, shit.” I stare at the paintbrush. “That means… mm.”
2:26 PM
((Who the fuck is Lelouch Moawizam))
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I lay down on the ground and pout.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:27 PM
(FYUCK()
2:27 PM
(you saw nothing)
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Jade looks walks over to the desk and grabs a few things. "It might be the wrong key, but it's the only one here." She walks over to Harriet's cage and presses it against the lock. It very clearly doesn't fit, and yet the door magically swings open unlocked.
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“Shut the fuck up about your stupid fake-ass straw feminism! You’re—I mean, I guess I should be happy, right?! If you’re just like this, and didn’t immediately look at me and take—and classify me as how much of a fucking woman I am, how easily, you think you can…” I don’t think any of that formed into a full sentence.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:30 PM
Harriet crawls out of the cage and attempts to speak to Lelouch. She chooses her words very, very carefully. "I, on occasion, have interpersonal.. issues with the male sex. I.... have my own, individual reasons for thinking this way, which aren't symptomatic of any greater.. social phenomena. That's the way I decide, of my own volition, to think about it."
2:30 PM
Harriet stares expectantly at her fist. Nothing happens.
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Gordon gives Harriet the wheelchair.
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I look up and look at Jade. "Hey! Unlock my door!"
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“Please don’t.” I’m pleading. There is no malice or spite.
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"I need it."
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"Do I?" Jade asks Lelouch.
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"If I don't get out of the cage, I will starve to death."
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:31 PM
"Why should you?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:31 PM
Harriet crawls into her wheelchair. "I am above vindictive cruelty," she says to herself, smiling blankly.
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Ok, I hate her too. Good.
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"Well, that's resolved then. We should try to go find Johnner in some other room." Jade.
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((statement adn reaction panel))
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"What??"
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“Yeah, good idea. Everything else is secondary.” I’m glad someone here is reasonable.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:35 PM
"I mean, you tried to kill me, so why should I? Karma's a bastard, or whatever." She shrugs to ???, before turning to her gf. "Do you know where else he could be, Jade?"
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Jade walks back into the living area. All of the other NPCs follow her.
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Living…area?
2:35 PM
I mean, I head that way, if there’s nothing better to do.
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The room right outside here.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:36 PM
Harriet wheels herself there obediently.
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"Tried to kill you? When!?"
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I ignore the unpleasant memory.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:37 PM
"I should probably follow her. The last time I took my eyes off her, Johnner had one of his men knock her and another woman out to kidnap me, the dickhead."
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((Channel split.))
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Avengard / dana-harriet-lelouch
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:38 PM
Women
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"Let's just look through all of these doors." Jade shrugs.
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I sigh in relief once we’re out of the way of that… that. Now I can… I should be able to calm down, right? That was the reason for… um…
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:39 PM
Lelouch does as Jade suggests.
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I start searching. I’m here to kill Jeff. That’s my mission.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:40 PM
Harriet immediately attempts to look through all the doors as well.
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((1.))
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:40 PM
((girlfailure))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:41 PM
(13)
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:41 PM
((1.))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:41 PM
((TRUE girlfailure)
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Dana accidentally locks herself in the bathroom somehow. Harriet accidentally topples her wheelchair over while opening a door.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:42 PM
"Help," Harriet says, muffled.
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Fuck.
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Lelouch opens the door to Jeff Johnner himself, standing outside. "What the hell? Shit!" He tries to shoot Lelouch with a gun, but Jade pulls Lelouch out of the way.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:44 PM
"JADE!"
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How am I so bad at this? It’s just… I mean, this is the easy part. No… the easy part is once we find him. That’s instant. This part is harder, I guess. I— “What?!” I try to break open the door to the bathroom.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:44 PM
"EX-FUCKING-CUSE ME, DON'T SHOOT MY GIRLFRIEND YOU BASTARD!" She's mad. How many other NPCs are there?
2:45 PM
oh wait i misunderstood)
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Johnner shuts the door and keeps firing bullets wildly through the door. Jade hides next to Harriet by using the wheelchair as a shield.
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Dana Craig
How am I so bad at this? It’s just… I mean, this is the easy part. No… the easy part is once we find him. That’s instant. This part is harder, I guess. I— “What?!” I try to break open the door to the bathroom.
((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:45 PM
"What's happening," Harriet says.
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((15))
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Dana breaks open the door.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:46 PM
Lelouch follows suit and hides behind the wheelchair, or at least sits next to Jade.
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“Where?” I look around frantically.
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"Good job, Harriet." Jade. One door has many very obvious bullet holes.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:47 PM
Harriet's eyes brighten. "Thank you."
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The gunshots have ended at this point.
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Ugh. Of course. If I were only there at the exact moment. I wait for a reprieve in firing to… I don’t know, rush over, open the door, shoot him dead.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:47 PM
"HAH! DIDN'T BRING AMMUNITION, DUMBASS?!" Lelouch shouts out from behind the wheelchair as the gunshots stop.
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The door is locked. Jade gets up and uses the key again, which works. The office looking room has no one in it anymore.
2:48 PM
There are no other doors inside.
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“How?!”
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"Huh?" Even Gordon is shocked.
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“Some fucking— secret passage-ass, he…”
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:49 PM
"Huh? Damn, he got away! That sly motherfucker!" She grumbles. Lelouch enters the office and searches for any trace of an exit.
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I feel sick. I feel like I’m about to… “He must… he has to still be close, right? Unless we’re throwing our hands up and saying he teleported! We need to… uh, we…”
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((Roll))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:50 PM
(18) (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:50 PM
Harriet frowns. "...Bad." She says, astute as ever.
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Lelouch halphazardly pulls out a book and causes the bookcase to swing out of the way. Behind it looks like some kind of elevator. Instead of a button to call the elevator, there's a keyhole. "Wow, magic makes things really useful." Jade.
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“Huh?” Magic???
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:52 PM
"Uh- Jade! Try the key! It might work!"
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Jade does press the key. Nothing happens.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 2:53 PM
"Magic is real." Harriet says matter-of-factly.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:53 PM
"Damn. Johnner might have the key on him. Motherfucker!" She kicks the bookcase.
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I try to break open the elevator door,
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((Roll))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:55 PM
"WHY does it have to be so difficult?! Why can the bastard just- NOT stay still?! For one second- A one second slip so we can spray him?!" Lelouch grumbles. She angy.
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“Shut up about your stupid fucking…”
2:55 PM
((3.))
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"...This looks important." The other girl who has been here the whole time and said nothing holds up a piece of paper. Jade grabs it. "It's just some numbers. We need a key. Can you do anything right?" "...Sorry." The girl.
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Yeah. Of course that doesn’t work. It was an idiotic idea. What the fuck is wrong with you? I look at the numbers.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:57 PM
"Jade, could I see?" Lelouch steps towards Jade to look at the paper.
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It's just a bunch of numbers. The elevator finally arrives and opens it's doors.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:57 PM
Lelouch whips around.
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Huh? Oh, good. ??
2:58 PM
I rush into the elevator.
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The NPCs all go into it as well.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 2:58 PM
Lelouch follows Dana.
2:58 PM
She makes sure to hold the door for Harriet because she's a lady.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:00 PM
Harriet follows.
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It is incredibly cramped in the small elevator. Jade presses the only button inside and the doors close.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:01 PM
Who needs personal space when you have women.
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Danganronpa.
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Gordon, a man, continues to be in the elevator. The elevator stays closed for an uncomfortably long amount of time.
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I hate this.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:05 PM
Harriet attempts to feel neutral about this.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:05 PM
"Why did Gorgon have to come in as well? It'd be much better if we left him outside..."
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"I'm not really sure why you're here, if anything." Gordon. Ariel is fine with this. She might even be positive about all of this.
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“I don’t understand why anyone who isn’t either armed or insane is still heading this way.”
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"Because they love Ms. Lelouch, of course." Jade.
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“Well, maybe she should consider making better choices.” Was that too mean? Nah, bitch deserves it.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:07 PM
Harriet nods, focused on the curve of Jade's face. She's only sort of paying attention.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:07 PM
"I make the best choices. Jade was one of them."
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“Was putting her in harm's way one, too?” (edited)
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:08 PM
"Jade, ask Dana to stop talking." Lelouch bluntly asks this.
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"Stop talking, Dana." Jade.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:09 PM
Girlbossing.
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Hahahahahahhaahahahahahahahhahaha
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:09 PM
Harriet wasn't addressed, but decides not to talk anyways.
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I lean against the wall, hugging my own torso tightly. It’s not like my existence matters until I can kill him.
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The elevator doors finally open. They're in what looks like some kind of service tunnel.
3:11 PM
"I had no idea this existed..." Gordon.
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I step out, looking for the man.
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The tunnel splits off into 2 directions.
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I run to the left.
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Ariel follows Dana.
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Gh.
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"Yeah, I trust them more." Gordon follows Ariel and Dana. "Then we take the right, right Ms Lelouch?" Jade.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:14 PM
"Of course. Maria, Officer," Lelouch says to the people behind her, "you're coming with us. What about you, Harriet?" Idk if there's any other npcs.
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((Just trying to figure out what channels I'm making))
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:14 PM
"I'll follow Jade," Harriet says firmly.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:15 PM
"Great! A cutie like Jade is the best person to follow." Lelouch says this before platning a kiss on Jade's cheek.
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They walk down the right path.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:17 PM
Harriet rolls.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:18 PM
Lelouch confidently leads the way.
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They arrive at a locked door. There's a keypad next to it. Jade tries to use the magic key, but it does nothing.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:20 PM
"Hm." Lelouch glares at the keypad. "Maybe the note Maria found has something to do with it?"
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Maria inputs the code, and the door opens. "Oh... You actually did something right for once." Jade.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:22 PM
Harriet, having forgotten another person existed, glances over.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:23 PM
"Good job, Maria!" Lelouch says before pushing past the woman and into the room.
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There's an absurd amount of weapons and various armours in here. Basically anything they can imagine, it's been stashed in here. There are no other doors and Johnner isn't here, however.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:25 PM
"Alright! Do you guys have anything that could carry stuff like this?"
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"Hands?" Jade.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:26 PM
"Arms."
3:27 PM
"A lap."
3:27 PM
"Why do we need this?"
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"To kill a mafia boss, of course." Jade excitedly grabs a flamethrower.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:30 PM
"I see no problem with that," Harriet says.
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Jade starts piling things up on Harriet's lap.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:34 PM
Lelouch does too. "Officer, Maria, help."
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They do this.
3:37 PM
"We should probably go in the other direction now." Jade.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:38 PM
"Right." Lelouch gives a nod of affirmation as she leads the party back the way they came.
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They follow her.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:39 PM
Harriet follows.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:43 PM
Lelouch goes down the other way.
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Dana, Ariel, and Gordon are all fighting Jeff Johnner. He's holding a shotgun, bleeding from his ear, and backed up against the wall.
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Avengard / dana-harriet-lelouch
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I shoot Johnner to death.
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((Roll)) "...Fuck." Johnner.
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((13))
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It hits his vest. The wall slides open behind him and he slips through it, before it shuts once again.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:50 PM
foiadjgioslkjlkgjlkadlksjklsadjgkljkfljgkldfjgkdsjlkgjdflkskgjklfdsjlgkdjsfh
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:51 PM
"Dammit, we were too late. Are you alright?" She asks this specifically to Ariel and Dana. She doesn't care about Gordon.
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Unbelievable.
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"How prepared was he for this shit?" Gordon. Jade grabs a rocket launcher from Harriet's lap and fires it at the wall. (edited)
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:53 PM
Lelouch looks at Jade for the entire time the rocket is launched no fucking way I'm facing that
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:53 PM
Harriet winces and shuts her eyes.
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The wall explodes, uncovering a thick layer of solid steel. It looks like some kind of nuclear fallout shelter. "It was worth a shot." Jade.
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I stare at it. …I bend down and reload my gun, if possible.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:55 PM
"Heh. A shot. Jade... you're so funny."
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It's possible. There are a lot of bigger guns on Harriet's lap though.
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That was my kill. This is my gun!
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Harriet Kadin
"Heh. A shot. Jade... you're so funny."
"Thank you!" Jade smiles.
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Dana stews in silent rage like the pathetic impotent little rat she is.
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"If a rocket launcher didn't work, what could possibly break through that wall?" Gordon.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 3:57 PM
"Jade really is funny." Lelouch agrees with 100% earnesty.
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Jade goes for a group hug with Lelouch and Harriet.
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I punch the wall with my stupid fucking fist.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:57 PM
dana craig
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Dana Craig
I punch the wall with my stupid fucking fist.
((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 3:58 PM
Harriet hugs her enthusiastically.
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((15))
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Dana accomplishes nothing but doesn't hurt her fist too bad. Jade kisses them both. The voice of Ray "Kite" Elliott suddenly makes a loud "Ew..." from behind the door they just came from.
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What?!
4:00 PM
I decide not to attempt to break my hand against the wall and instead focus on something less r-slur. I turn to the door, alert.
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Kite steps out. He's wearing a suit that looks like a weird sort of beetle instead of his usual. "Ha... I mean. Guess who can break through that wall." "You again..." Jade speaks with disgust.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:02 PM
"Fuck off."
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I gesture to the wall impatiently.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:03 PM
"I miss the kissing part." Harriet says, despondent.
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I’m going to kill everyone in the room and then myself.
4:03 PM
Joke.
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"Girls kissing girl? What are you, a (homophobic slur)?" Kite, a gay man. (edited)
4:04 PM
Jade takes out the perfume threateningly.
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Everyone here is a moron except for me. Yeah, see? I can’t be judged or fuck up if I simply never talk, ever. This is great. I’m great. Haha.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:05 PM
"If anyone's a (homophobic slur), it's you!" Lelouch, a lesbian woman.
4:06 PM
"Stop trying to insert your pathetic narrative into our story and accept you're a bottomfeeder who'll only be useful when, and I say that confidentally, me and Jade spray you."
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:07 PM
"No one here is a homosexual." Harriet says confidently. "I don't think we need to make baseless assumptions."
Ehn/PC pinned a message to this channel. 8/25/2023 4:07 PM
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That feels wrong, but I don’t know enough about anyone to dispute it.
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"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Kite leaps forward and swings the crowbar at the perfume. In a panic, Jade turns around and tries to protect the bottle with her body.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:09 PM
"JADE!" Lelouch picks up a gun from Harriet's lap and points it at Kite.
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The crowbar collides with Jade's head and she simply vanishes.
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I aim to shoot at Lel—huh?
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"Uh..." Kite stumbles back. "I think... I think Jade's dead?"
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:10 PM
Harriet blinks. A snapping sound echoes in the back of her head. Suddenly - sharp clarity, as if emerging from cold water. And then confusion. "What the fuck?"
4:10 PM
"What the fuck?"
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Dana Craig has seen better days. Probably not the one here the worst off.
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Kite walks a little backwards from the group. "Johnner's through that wall, right?"
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I nod. I’m glad he understands the only thing to ever be important, and also is surely paying attention to the information I convey specifically.
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"Then... I've just gotta kill the rest of you and finish my job. Ha... Being a hero's never been so easy." Kite. Maria passes out cold.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:13 PM
Lelouch is just. Speechless. She's still got her gun aimed at Kite.
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Oh, he’s insane. Okay.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:13 PM
"...What did you do?" She asks, coldly, finger on the trigger. "Where the fuck is Jade?"
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"Shoot me. Don't worry... I won't die." Kite.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:14 PM
((CARLOS MENTIONED))
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If my disgusting impulses can’t be controlled, at least my actions can. I grab Ariel. It was only ever her. My only hope. I stand in front of her.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:14 PM
Lelouch shoots at his feet. "What the FUCK did you do to my girlfriend?"
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"Ha... As if I'd admit not knowing something." Kite says smugly.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:15 PM
Oh shit. "Oh shit, that was your girlfriend?"
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:15 PM
"Don't make me put the next bullet through your head, if the skull's not thick enough."
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I stare at Harriet before forcing myself to focus on the main threat.
4:16 PM
Ok, clearly the crowbar is magic, and can completely destroy things and people. It’s like Vanilla Ice, from jojo. Just need to uh… avoid that.
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"Come on, Lelouch. Kill me. I'm waiting!" Kite.
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Oh, is this like a suicide by cop thing? Jesus. What happened to this fuckin’ guy?
4:17 PM
I aim my gun in the general direction Lelouch and Kite are both in.
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((Wait do you mean the perfume bottle?))
4:18 PM
((It vanished with Jade))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:18 PM
(Ohhh I should've checked)
4:18 PM
(Okay ignore that then)
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:19 PM
"I'm sorry," Harriet says miserably. "There's something really wrong with me, Jesus.... I'm sorry - I don't know what I'm doing.. is that a defense? That I didn't know? I need........"
4:20 PM
Harriet trails off into indecipherable mumbling. Her hand moves, sluggishly, to her face, as if to impact it, but just barely misses the slope of her cheek and flops limply to the side, like a puppet with all strings severed.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:20 PM
Lelouch doesn't say anything simply keeping her hands on the gun.
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Dana Craig stands there incredibly high strung and overclocked, like a puppet with strings very present also on cocaine and in bondage gear and a straitjacket.
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"Jeez, you guys are boring... Come on. You gonna make me the only one doing anything this whole fight?" Kite. "Shoot him." Ariel whispers this to Dana.
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I smile. Finally, something I’m happy to listen to. I shoot him.
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The bullet explodes on impact with the suit, and Kite seems completely unnaffected. "Aha! That's more like it!" Kite.
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I roll my eyes. At least there’s a clear reason that didn’t kill him. (edited)
4:23 PM
I wonder what happened to the other guy. The one who had that suit. Whatever. He probably doesn’t matter.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:24 PM
"That's why you never give men what they want." She keeps her eyes firmly on Kite, only wincing at the bullet's explosion. "Just take the wall away or whatever and get the fuck out."
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…Does the suit cover all of him?
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"Nah... This is payback. For real this time." Kite looks down bitterly at where Jade was standing. "It really... Didn't hurt so much after all. Taking a life. Lot of build up for nothing, I guess. It's kind of embarassing." He looks back up at Lelouch. "But you... Your whole crowd... Everyone who stands in my way. I'm gonna make 'em pay for what you've done." Gordon grabs a gun from Harriet's lap and fires it several times. None of them do anything. "...Nah. Not like that. Let's do this my way." Kite points the crowbar dramatically. ((Everyone roll initiative!))
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((13))
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:28 PM
((20))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:28 PM
((3))
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((Fastest thing alive))
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((12))
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It's Harriet's turn.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:33 PM
Harriet is too busy freaking the fuck out to do anything about this situation.
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It’s Dana’s turn.
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Hmph. This could be a trivial obstacle, ultimately. It’s a matter not of strength… but politics. I steady my grip and continue to examine if there’s any physical weak points to this defense. “MAOZIWAM!” I growl, having obviously always been capable of speaking when it became necessary. “Who is this?” I glance behind me at Ariel briefly.
4:40 PM
((This is my whole “turn”, I guess?))
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Ariel skips her turn.
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It’s okay, I understand.
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Kite hits Dana in the chest with a crowbar. It is not immediately fatal but she can undeniably feel that this will kill her if she doesn't heal.
4:42 PM
Gordon shoots at Kite some more. It does nothing.
4:42 PM
The cop shoots Kite as well. Also useless.
4:42 PM
It's Lelouch's turn.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 4:46 PM
Lelouch still dutifully holds her gun, but doesn't shoot. "He's an asshole who calls himself Kite, can't bother to remember his real name. He's got a pathetic, useless hero complex and loves to villanise women. Also, he loves getting in the way of my plans because of whatever problems he's got brewing in his head, which is just the icing on the shitcake that is Kite." She keeps the gun pointed at his head and moves to the back of the room.
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It's Harriet's turn.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 4:47 PM
Harriet falls out of her wheelchair.
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This scatters all the weaponry she was carrying across the floor.
4:47 PM
It's Dana's turn.
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Dana Craig, who is me, screams in pain. But then I laugh. “Ha… hahahaha! Not gone, not one hit…. Heh… I guess I’m made of stronger stuff than… ugh, not his nickname or your shitty grudge, you idiot, I…” I let this thought which was already interrupting another unfinished thought remain unfinished as I both lack confidence in how I even would conclude it while also realizing that I am going to die. “Ariel. Ariel! Ariel please. Ariel, I need you Ariel, please. I don’t want to die. I don’t… I can still win. I have a lot left to do. I’m gonna be… so good. For you. Okay? I just… I need more time. I need to live. Please! Ariel, I…. I love you. I didn’t say it before. Sorry. Please. I don’t want to die. I just, I… you can help me, you’re special, I… Ariel, I…” This goes on indefinitely! Some of it is audible. Dana sort of pathetically stumbles closer to the Johnner Wall (tm) and, lacking any effective attack, does nothing else at the moment.
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Ariel uses the paintbrush on Dana, healing her instantly.
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Okay, cool. Anyway.
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Kite attacks the cop. It hits.
4:58 PM
Gordon keeps shooting at Kite.
4:58 PM
The cop.
4:58 PM
It’s Lelouch’s turn.
5:01 PM
((For note, speaking is a free action. You guys don’t have to wait for turns for that))
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“Thanks :3”
5:01 PM
Dana would not say that. She wouldn’t say colon 3.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 5:02 PM
"COP, DO SOMETHING USEFUL AND BODY HIM!" She yells while distancing herself. "Gordon, make sure he can't get to the weapons! Dana, check on Harriet, uh-" Lelouch looks at Kite. Is there anywhere on him that's exposed or is it all suit?
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Pretty much all suit.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 8/25/2023 5:03 PM
Fucking great.
5:03 PM
Lelouch closes her eyes and shoots him. I assume the bullet explodes upon impact like the rest.
5:03 PM
(or was that my turn)
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The bullet explodes upon impact.
5:04 PM
It’s Harriet’s turn.
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Harriet Kadin 8/25/2023 5:04 PM
((harriet [me] has to LEAVE))
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((Okay end session))
5:05 PM
((The Craig of our lives can resume next week))
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 9:39 AM
((I will be late by like an hour today because of mandatory college stuff))
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It’s Harriet’s turn.
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 3:07 PM
Harriet attempts to pick up one of the guns that's fallen to the ground.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:11 PM
((Roll (hey guys it’s me Atmey)))
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Harriet picks up a gun.
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 3:18 PM
Harriet shoots wildly into the sky, intending to hit Kite, but some combination of derangement and instability leads her to just.. shoot at random.
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((Roll))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:19 PM
((I swear to god.))
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 3:28 PM
((20))
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The bullet somehow perfectly hits Kite in the head. Naturally, this still accomplishes nothing.
3:29 PM
It’s Dana's turn.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:41 PM
I stare at Harriet. She’s fine, clearly. Aside from the absurdity of her presence here. Only those ready to fight should be here, and by my count, that’s me… and the cop. I guess they had the sense to try getting armed. But Johnner was mine. My mark! And this fucking guy… isn’t. It’s hers. I glance towards that fucking one. Regardless. My most valuable contribution would be to prevent him from targeting others. Particularly the healer. I wonder if I could trick him into busting this place open? Probably not. Worth a try, though. “Kite… I’ve actually seen you before, funnily enough. But I’m confused. By what’s changed. Just, this isn’t right.” I smirk. I ready myself and my reflexes to dodge at the right time. ((Readying an action is possible in D&D. Perhaps A&G is different.)) “I mean, where’s your boyfriend?” Olé.
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"You mean my bro?" Kite.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:44 PM
“Call it what you will.” I chuckle.
3:45 PM
I don’t actually know a single thing about this relationship. Hopefully it’s enough to annoy him, though.
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"Heh…" Kite smirks. "Thanks for reminding me. Now I’m REALLY in the mood to kill Lelouch." Ariel heals the cop.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:48 PM
Oh. Well, that’s still not bad. Probably better than me.
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Kite attacks Harriet, and somehow misses.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:48 PM
“You’re really fucking bad at killing Lelouch, man.”
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"Yeah, I can hear you! Jeez! Stop distracting me!" Kite yells this at no one in particular.
3:49 PM
Gordon and the cop shoot Kite. This continues to fail to succeed.
3:50 PM
It’s Lelouch’s turn.
3:50 PM
"How should I know!?" Kite.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:51 PM
Oh, cool. He’s insane or has an earpiece.
3:51 PM
Probably both.
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"You! Tell me how you know us!" Kite says this to Dana.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:53 PM
“I have an informant.” I smile.
3:53 PM
“Us…?”
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 3:58 PM
((is this like. a cave? asking for a friend)
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((It is a room with brick walls))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 3:59 PM
((The children yearn for the mines.))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:00 PM
((what about the ceiling))
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((Idk it’s like cement or something ig))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:02 PM
”Thing about battles over the mafia… The mafia always wins.” Lelouch stomps on the ground, causing the ceiling to crack then cave in and
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:04 PM
"Hey!" She says, glancing to the officer. "Cop, be useful and get in front of me!" She, in an effort to do SOMETHING, shoots at the hand Kite's using to hold the crowbar.
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((Roll))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:06 PM
(13)
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It misses.
4:07 PM
It’s Harriet’s turn.
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 4:08 PM
Harriet is so deeply tired and afraid and her body feels like a wrung-out towel, which, she decides apropros of nothing, means it's a good time for her to fall asleep. In the past, she's always woken up, if necessary. She wants to wake up again.
4:08 PM
Harriet shuts her eyes.
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It’s Dana’s turn.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:14 PM
Perhaps it’s strange I’m not more fearful for my life. I did come very close then. It’s just gamer rationale, I guess. Not like I have much real experience to draw from. If a hit at full vitality didn’t kill me, it won’t next time. …Unless there’s damage spread. “Who is he talking to?” I wonder aloud. I won’t waste my ammunition. It’s obvious that’s ineffective. Hoping for some miracle scenario where he misses me and fucks up the wall behind me… is still my best plan. Pretty shitty. I’ll keep thinking. I glance nervously at Ariel, then focus back on the enemy. “I’m not even supposed to be here, man.” I smile at the reference to my own personal mythology. Wild.
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Ariel has no one to heal, so she gets up close to Kite. "We can’t hurt you… And we don’t want to die. So how about a trade." "Nuh-uh. Not happening." Kite. Ariel turns to Lelouch and then back to Kite. "I’m a woman. I can make myself useful to you, okay?"
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:22 PM
"Don't! You don't want to associate with Kite. He's like, a horrible guy! He forced Maria to kiss him!" Lelouch is baffled.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:22 PM
“…” I take a deep… a very deep breath. “Mm.” It’s about trust, right? I let her cook. For… For now.
4:23 PM
“I don’t want to associate with you, either.” I stare at her spitefully. “If we can get out of this without anyone in this room being slaughtered by bullshit magic, that’s great. But I’ll settle for less.”
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"Obviously I’m not!" Kite. "I’ve had enough kissing girls for the day." Ariel looks confused. "I meant… This." She raises up the paintbrush. "I’m good in this kind of supporting role."
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:25 PM
"I don't force women to kiss me because I'm insecure!" Lelouch shoots a glare at Kite.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:25 PM
“What does that mean, Ariel?” Open, honest communication. I’m so relationshipped right now.
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Lelouch Maoziwam
"I don't force women to kiss me because I'm insecure!" Lelouch shoots a glare at Kite.
"That’s because you do it to boys!" Kite says confidently.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:26 PM
"I WOULD NEVER KISS A MAN! I'M NOT YOU!"
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Dana Craig
“What does that mean, Ariel?” Open, honest communication. I’m so relationshipped right now.
"The eyepatch." Ariel points.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:27 PM
“Everything I do is consensual.” I proudly tout my moral superiority. “…Oh. I kind of assumed that was like… a stylistic choice? I guess that’s my bad.”
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:28 PM
"Are you sure that eyepatch isn't just to make people think he's cooler than he is? It sounds like something he'd do."
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:28 PM
“It’s kind of cool. Credit where it’s due.”
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:28 PM
"It's not on him."
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"Nope! 100% real!" Kite flips up the eyepatch to reveal the lack of an eye. Ariel uses the paintbrush on him. "There you go!"
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:30 PM
"Ew." She says this referring to both pre- and post-eye Kite.
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"…What?" Kite blinks out of both eyes.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:31 PM
“I don’t know if that was a good…” I trail off.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:31 PM
"Why couldn't you have made him completely blind? Effectively neutralise his annoying ass."
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:31 PM
“That is not how it works.”
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:32 PM
"Well then- double up his eyepatch or whatever. Block his vision instead of bettering it." (edited)
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:33 PM
“I don’t think it does anything to anything but— why am I even bothering? That’s dumb. He’s impervious to harm, obviously.”
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:34 PM
"Yea, yea, whatever." Lelouch grumbles. "Now that you have two eyes," she turns to Kite, "can you see how annoying you are?"
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:35 PM
“Hah.”
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"You... Erased it. The scar." Kite feels his eye. "Yeah. Try to keep up." Gordon.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:37 PM
"Why don't you put your new eye to good use and find the exit?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 4:37 PM
"I'm asleep," Harriet repeats.
🔥 2
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:38 PM
“Please don’t tell me you considered it necessary or core to your identity somehow.” I sigh. “This is already enough of a comedy of errors.”
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"How dare you!" Kite swings the crowbar down on Ariel. She collapses on the floor, in clear shock from bloodloss. "That scar was who I am! I... How dare you kill the great Kite like that!?" Kite grabs the paintbrush and tosses it into the pile of stuff. "I'm a hero! And being a hero means suffering! So I'm gonna kill you all... And when I do, I'm gonna get so many scars it'll make that cripple look privileged!"
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 4:42 PM
Harriet opens her eyes. "That's.. really rude."
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:42 PM
No
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I
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Dana
4:42 PM
I’m
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Kite powers up from how angry he is and demonstrates this by destroying Harriet's wheelchair with his crowbar. Gordon shoots him. It misses. The cop gets in front of Lelouch defensively.
4:43 PM
It's Lelouch's turn.
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 4:44 PM
"Ow."
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:45 PM
((New revelation. Harriet’s wheelchair is part of her body))
4:51 PM
((am i being waited on. i was typing but decided it made more sense to react on my turn(tm) dana is currently in shock))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:52 PM
fnnvklnsd ah kk))
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 4:52 PM
((whats that mean)
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:52 PM
((yes you were being waited on i didn wanna fuck up smth))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 4:53 PM
((sowwy))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 4:53 PM
((nono!!! dwdw)
4:54 PM
Lelouch...steps out from behind the cop. (I don't know the specific arrangements of the room anymore I just assume she's further than Kite.) "Kite!" She calls out, gun in hand but not pointed at him.
4:55 PM
(It's not being used I don't know why I made it sound like it was being pointed somewhere, she's just holding it)
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Kite does not respond.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 5:04 PM
"You came here for me, right? To kill me?" She asks, stepping towards him. "Well then, why're you wasting time and energy hitting defenceless women?" Lelouch tilts her head to the side. "What, are you too much of a chicken shit to actually do it? Is that why you've dolled yourself up in some dumbass suit and armed yourself with a crowbar? Too scared a girl will beat your ass without something to cripple her?"
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He doesn't respond.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:09 PM
((Dana Craig is done shutting the fuck up.))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 5:11 PM
Lelouch rolls her eyes. "Coward. No wonder you had to force a woman to kiss you." She scoffs, before shooting at Kite's new eye.
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((Roll))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 5:11 PM
((man the bot hates me today))
5:11 PM
((7))
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It misses.
5:12 PM
It's Harriet's turn.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:12 PM
“You…” I mutter…
5:14 PM
Starting to come out of that… my stupor… embarrassing. I think that bitch took my opportunity for the first comeback. In a daze, I hobble forward. Very slightly. Towards him. ((Or I don’t. It’s more a symbolic addition to speech than an attempt to use initiative.)) “You… idiot. You shit-for-brains, cliched, pathetic, masochistic moron. I want you to understand this. I think you’re like me. I won’t get through your thick, worthless skull with any moralizing. Ohhh, you struck down a poor innocent woman! Stuff like that. You did, obviously. But who cares? You knew that. That’s a given. Why you’re here. I don’t want to tell you that.” I’m seething. I finally understand what the word means. It’s funny. I stifle an inappropriate laugh. Funny to feel like you’ve spent your entire life bitter and angry. And only now know what real rage is.
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 5:16 PM
Harriet opens her eyes. There is no clarity; at least, not the kind she was hoping for. It is not a new day. It's the same dream, and Jade Lamperouge is still dead. Some things don't change.
5:20 PM
"I think there's something really wrong with me, Alexi." She says, and her voice is quiet. "I don't... I get what you were trying to say now, about the bravery, and holding myself in contempt... but I can't do it. Do you understand?. I think I used to be brave. I remember a point where I had, fuck, aspirations towards something. Which is why I started doing all of this in the first place, you know? But it's different now. It's so different. Fuck, I can't even... I used to refer to myself as I, you know, but it's all Harriet now, that unenviable distance. Do you get it? There's nothing here. God cleaned out all the rooms and turned the lights off."
5:21 PM
"If you're here," She says, staring up with wide, wet eyes from her place on the ground, "Send me a sign. Turn me into a meat crayon. Puppet me, okay? I don't want to be this anymore."
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No response.
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 5:25 PM
"Okay, fuck, then," she says, increasingly desperate - "The other one. The other one, I know you're there, I can feel you. You want me to be nice. I'm being nice. I'm on the ground. I can shoot myself in the head right now if it would make me a prettier corpse, okay? So please tell me something. Anything. I'll take it all."
5:25 PM
Nothing.
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It's Dana's turn.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:32 PM
I continue my gradual stride. He’s got a pathetic range, anyway. What the fuck is the floor woman talking about? Whatever. It doesn’t matter remotely. All these fucking guys. None of you were supposed to be here. You want to do this to me? You want me to get dragged into… us, into your fucking, high school drama feud bullshit?! Fine! Fine. But it’s about ME. I’m the one this is happening to, who has to go through this. You all get the right to whine once you’ve done anything at fucking all. Me! Why does everyone ignore me??? “I want to make sure you understand. K… no, I won’t dignify your pansy ass stage name. Whoever you really are? You’re pathetic. You’re the dumbest person I’ve ever met. Next time you want to act against your own interest so brazenly and loudly, save the trouble for you and everyone else. Just kill yourself normally. I think I saw some rope upstairs.” I continue walking. “That was a gender thing, though. Men like it louder and grander, right? Crashing your car, suicide by cop. Too much pride to go softly.” I fiddle with the gun. Firing it won’t really do any good right now, clearly.
5:33 PM
“I don’t have any delusions you’ll listen to me, though. You don’t have the guts to do anything like that. Ohhhhh… Suffering? Don’t make me laugh. If you want to fetishize whatever sob story you’ve got, you don’t get to do that while fighting as the biggest pussy I’ve ever seen. I’m the only one suffering here… and it’s because you’re fucking boring!” I lunge at him. This is logical. This makes sense. See, it’ll be impossible to swing at me when I’m literally up in his face strangling him. And helping Ariel is pointless if I can’t get us out of this situation. Yeah.
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((Roll))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:34 PM
((20))
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Dana tackles Kite to the ground. "Fuck!"
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:36 PM
I punch him in his stupid fucking face. ((That seems like a reasonable turn.))
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((Roll))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:36 PM
((12))
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Dana breaks her hand.
5:37 PM
Ariel continues to bleed out.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:37 PM
“Gehahahaha! Ohhh, you’ve really got it made!”
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Kite skips the trouble of fighting Dana off him by just hitting her really hard with the crowbar. She is now on the floor, slowly dying again.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:39 PM
Oh. I get it. I was the one with pride.
5:39 PM
Haha.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 5:40 PM
Well, shit. "Cop, Gordon, one of you distract him while the other grabs that magic paintbrush or whatever and heal the WOMEN!"
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"I don't take orders from you." Gordon proceeds to look for the paintbrush anyway, as instructed.
5:41 PM
The cop shoots Kite again. No success.
5:41 PM
It's Lelouch's turn.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 5:45 PM
"I meant TACKLE him, not SHOOT him!"
5:48 PM
"Ugh..." She rolls her eyes and looks Kite dead on. "...You're really pathetic for a guy who says he wants to kill me and then harms every other woman but me."
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He continues to ignore her.
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 5:50 PM
She shoots at the crowbar. "Once a-fucking-gain, I'm ignored."
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((Roll))
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Lelouch Maoziwam 9/2/2023 5:51 PM
((13))
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It misses.
5:52 PM
It's Harriet's turn.
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 5:53 PM
((harriet [me] has to do homework))
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Harriet falls asleep.
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:56 PM
((Jfjf jgjg ??))
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((Genius solution))
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Harriet Kadin 9/2/2023 5:57 PM
((harriet nap time... zzz.....))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:57 PM
((i was ready to accept the end session but ok sure i can continue (dana is going to be so active in the near future)))
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Dana passes out from blood loss. ((Unless you want to get some final words out here idk))
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Dana Craig 9/2/2023 5:58 PM
“I… I don’t… wanna…g—” She passes out from blood loss.
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((Channel split))
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-kadin
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Harriet wakes back up just in time to watch the steel wall shut once more behind Kite. Everyone else is down. She can see the the paintbrush from this angle now.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:09 PM
Harriet groans, palming at her head. “What...?” She says, disoriented, and attempts to check the people around her.
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They’re all severely bleeding, aside from Maria. Dana is conscious again but still bleeding.
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Avengard / dana-and-harriet
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((hi))
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:15 PM
((Hewwo))
2:15 PM
“Are you.. okay?” Harriet asks, unsure of herself.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 2:36 PM
“D…do I look…” I look around frantically for the thing that is magic and heals people.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:37 PM
"Do you look what?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 2:41 PM
“He left… why would he…? That’s not important. We… maybe he just didn’t realize who was still alive.” I’m alive. Me.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:41 PM
Harriet frowns. "I really don't know what you're talking about."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 2:44 PM
Why did she say that? Is she stupid? “I’m bleeding… he… the guy, you saw him, before you decided it was a good time to take a nap. He started, but didn’t finish the job. Was it just…”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:45 PM
"Oh." Harriet says. "Yeah, I think he's gone."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 2:48 PM
“I know.”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:48 PM
"So... what does this mean, exactly?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 2:53 PM
“I don’t know, it… I mean, this is the opportunity to, regroup, what we can. I need to check who…” I come to a realization. “Hah. Of course. Just my luck. One person conscious and unharmed, and it’s… I mean, no offense. Not your fault.”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:55 PM
"Right," Harriet says firmly. "You wouldn't want to acknowledge my, like, interiority, or any compulsion towards action or ability or capacity for violence. That wouldn't cohere very well with what you've made me out to be."
2:55 PM
Harriet waits expectantly, staring towards her hand as primed towards action or reaction, but nothing comes. A moment of relief breaking through, then quiet.
2:56 PM
"Okay. Regrouping. And.. with who? Why? I kind of don't understanding anything that's happening. Or who we're supposed to be killing. Or who you are."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 2:58 PM
I laugh, despite myself, coughing a little. “Ahh… that’s fair, very fair. Were you just… dumped in a cage and then dragged along for everything else…? I’ve been in that kind of situation before…”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 2:59 PM
"I actually woke up here," Harriet says hesitantly. "After a.. really strange dream. I thought I was dreaming this too, at first.. but I don't get to be a player in my dreams."
2:59 PM
"No offense, but you seem a lot nicer now."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:02 PM
“Suck my… ok, yeah, I guess I was a little… on edge. Maybe I should be right now. Am I woozy? It kind of feels like… as long as I stay awake, I’ll stay alive. So that part’s fine.” I continue scanning the area ineffectively. “My name is Dana Craig. I would’ve liked to hide that, but we’re too late for that, and I don’t have any real misgivings about you in particular… I think.”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:04 PM
"I'm Harriet Kadin." Harriet says. "And likewise. I feel.. better, after napping, strangely. There's this sort of clarity about me. So I'm ready to be super, super helpful."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:06 PM
“Mm.” I look over at how bad Ariel is. “If you see a paintbrush, let me know, I guess.”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:06 PM
"Oh, I saw one earlier, I think." Harriet says.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:08 PM
“Yeah.”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:08 PM
"Is it, like, a magic paintbrush? I learned magic is real recently, so I'm down with basically anything right now."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:09 PM
“Yeah, basically. Heals wounds. So, y’know. Practical, at the moment.”
3:11 PM
“It’s the thing Ariel used to…. Ugh.”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:13 PM
"Yeah, I meant to ask that too. Who's Ariel? Your girlfriend?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:17 PM
“Haha… y…yeah.” I admit, as though it’s something embarrassing.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:17 PM
Sticker
3:17 PM
Harriet says this with her mouth somehow.
3:17 PM
"I'm cool with lesbians." She says, with the tone of someone delivering great wisdom.
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Dana is still bleeding out.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:19 PM
“That’s nice.” I’m still bleeding out. For note. “I mean, technically, I… Ariel isn’t one. She throws herself at anything that moves.” I would probably be a bit more careful with my words in more ideal situations.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:21 PM
"That's also cool." Harriet says. "Very feminist, I think... maybe? I had a strong opinion on that at one point. I forgot what it was, though."
3:21 PM
"Are you okay?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:25 PM
“I’m still bleeding out.” I roll my eyes. “Sure seems like you had an opinion on…ghrk.” My… head hurts. Let’s avoid that area for now… “So you really have no idea why you ended up here? Do you know… the guy we found with you?”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:28 PM
"Yeah, kind of." Harriet says, frowning. "I keep having dreams about him. Also, he might be my imaginary friend who I used to.... get to help me with things. But I think he might actually be a real guy, and not just a brain ghost I invented. Which is comforting, because that means I'm not crazy yet."
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??? runs in.
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / dana-harriet-unknown
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:29 PM
“FUCK!”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:29 PM
"That's my brain ghost." Harriet says.
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"You!!"
3:29 PM
I shoot at Lelouch.
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((Roll))
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:31 PM
“Ohhhh, nonono…” I briefly have a realistic depiction of a panic attack.
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??? successfully shoots the person who is already bleeding out.
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I hope they die.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:32 PM
“AGH! What are you fucking doing? If you want that, just wait for time to finish the job, shithead!”
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"What?"
3:33 PM
"What are you talking about, Dana?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:33 PM
"What the fuck?" Harriet says. "Why are we shooting each other!! Don't do that!!!"
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She gets up and stands between ??? and Lelouch. "Please... Don't hurt her."
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"Too late."
3:34 PM
"Who are you?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:34 PM
“Forget it. Your ‘friend’ here’s a l….” Hm. “Maybe we should be making noise…”
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"H-How do I save her... Please let- Please let me do something right!"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:35 PM
Ugggghhhh.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:35 PM
Harriet looks around, confused, her eyes wide. "Who the fuck is Lelouch? What's happening right now?"
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"What? Nobody said that name?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:36 PM
I laugh. “And you didn’t even know her… oh, man. This is all so fucking stupid, I’m sorry!”
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I stare at Harriet. "Stop talking."
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:37 PM
"No, no, I've heard that name before. I'm hearing it right now." Harriet's hand goes fiercely to her face. She bites onto the meat of her palm, swollen over her mouth, stopping her from speaking.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:38 PM
“M-Maria Stanley, right? I remember because that’s not a real fucking last name. There’s… there’s an item around here that can heal people…”
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I shoot at Dana.
3:39 PM
"Stop saying fucking nonsense."
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:40 PM
"I agree we should all stop saying nonsense," Harriet says weakly from behind her stained hand.
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"Where is it?"
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Dana is shot.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:41 PM
“Agh! Hey, if you want to shoot Dana Craig, why not point the gun the opposite way, ya mental defective?!”
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"That wasn't me."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:42 PM
“Some of us value our lives, and also… have the slightest clue what’s going on right now!”
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"What’s the thing that’ll save her!" Maria repeats.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:42 PM
"I would like to know what's happening also."
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"Don't say anything about anything that would 'save' Lelouch."
3:43 PM
"I forbid you."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:44 PM
“It’s a paintbrush.” I stare at the [SLUR], flipping him off with intent as I continue to say nonsense. “I don’t fucking care about Lelouch. But if it’s either she’s saved or I die, the choice is really easy.”
3:45 PM
“Actually, I do care. I fucking hate that woman. She’s the only one who rivals you in speed at reaching my shit list. But I don’t use that to, SHOOT AT PEOPLE for MILDLY ANNOYING ME, like some psychopath…”
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"You don't?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:46 PM
“Yes, yes, hahaaa… it’s because I had a gun, yes… they must have thought I was like that, thought I was an enemy, but they were wrooooong….”
3:46 PM
“I was being cautious!”
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Maria pulls out the paintbrush from some random things and heals Lelouch. Lelouch doesn’t move. "Ms. Lelouch…?" She drops the paintbrush and it rolls over into Dana’s reach.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:49 PM
I take it!!! I take it and heal myself! If I can. I forget if that’s possible. I take it, at any rate.
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Dana is healed.
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I try to take the paintbrush from Dana. (edited)
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:51 PM
Yes, okay. I go to Ariel. I save her. She’s not dead. There’s absolutely no way. I’m not having a life like that, where she perishes in the stupidest way possible.
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Ariel is healed.
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I try to take the paintbrush from Dana. (edited)
((Roll))
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:52 PM
((Still unconscious, though?))
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:53 PM
((also do i roll like in classic Grapple Contest or is it just one))
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Dana Craig
((Still unconscious, though?))
((Yes))
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Dana Craig
((also do i roll like in classic Grapple Contest or is it just one))
((Also yes))
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:54 PM
((10))
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 3:54 PM
Harriet remains on the floor.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 3:55 PM
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??? has the brush.
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I try to use it on myself.
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((Where))
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((on the head i guess)) (edited)
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The bandages are properly attached again.
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"What!?"
3:58 PM
I try to snap the paintbrush.
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??? instantly passes out.
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / dana-and-harriet
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Maria takes the paintbrush and heals Gordon.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:01 PM
Oh. Yeah, okay, fine.
4:01 PM
“That was… convenient.”
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:03 PM
"What... I don't understand.." Harriet says.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:04 PM
“Maybe it’s not worth understanding. He is simply a force of nature.” I chuckle.
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Maria heals the cop. Unfortunately, he is already dead.
4:07 PM
No he isn't.
4:07 PM
What?
4:07 PM
Why are you arguing with this now?
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:07 PM
((Finally, something important enough for the diegetic narration!!))
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The cop is intended to be a minor background figure. He can't die here.
4:08 PM
Why could he not? The fact he's irrelevant is exactly why he should get kicked out before the important stuff.
4:09 PM
No one else has died from that fight. If he did, this would turn a rather pivotal moment into the The Cop death scene. His death would cement his importance.
4:09 PM
That's ridiculous. That's not how that works.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:09 PM
I wonder if everyone actually survived. I think this. Me. Dana. Normally. It would be pretty impressive odds. Or I drastically overestimated the strength of the crowbar. “Is that everyone?”
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Between the 2 of us, which one understands fiction and how it operates? Everything you learned you learned from me.
4:10 PM
Ugh. Fine. The cop is also healed. Hurray for lack of stakes.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:13 PM
I… check if I have the physical strength to carry Ariel, if that’s ultimately needed right now.
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The paintbrush is pulled out of Maria's hands by the air itself.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:13 PM
Yeah, sure. Why not.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:14 PM
"Oh." Harriet says firmly. "I get it now. Bastard."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:14 PM
“Is someone invisible, actually? That would make sense. I can’t believe how far I’ve fallen to say that and mean it.” (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:14 PM
"Don't do that!!!"
4:15 PM
Harriet frowns. "Hit yourself in the face."
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Ariel wakes up to Dana carrying her. She smiles. "My knight in shining armour."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:17 PM
“Ehhhah…” Don’t fucking drop her, holy shit, idiot. I stand there awkwardly for longer than necessary before realizing this is no longer an action with value and lowering her to the ground.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:17 PM
"Okay. Did I.. only just now realize? You're not doing anything I say because I want to. You're doing it because you have to, is that right? You have no choice."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:17 PM
I… cautiously listen to this conversation.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:19 PM
"I get it now. You never were the person I wanted you to be. But you're someone who doesn't have a choice in the matter, which I guess is better. You're kind of sick, you know?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:19 PM
Haha, what?
4:20 PM
Thank god my relationships are healthy.
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Maria looks at the empty air Harriet is talking to. "Are... You like me?"
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:21 PM
“Can someone tell me what the hell is going on right now?” My patience exhausted, I YIIK a little.
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Ehn/PC
Maria looks at the empty air Harriet is talking to. "Are... You like me?"
Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:25 PM
Harriet frowns. "Who are you?"
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Dana Craig
“Can someone tell me what the hell is going on right now?” My patience exhausted, I YIIK a little.
Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:25 PM
"I'm talking to my brain ghost."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:26 PM
“I thought that was.” I point at the unconscious(?) ???.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:26 PM
"Yes, but he's also here."
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:27 PM
“Sure.” I survey the room. “Uhh… guess he’s still in that damn bunker…”
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The bunker explodes, sending the walls flying at them. Everyone loses consciousness.
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Dana Craig 9/9/2023 4:30 PM
((GOOD SESSION))
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-and-unknown
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((Send your messages here pichuis))
4:06 PM
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"I don't understand!"
4:10 PM
I push myself up and try to take the paintbrush again.
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Also the cop is healed.
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???
I push myself up and try to take the paintbrush again.
((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:11 PM
((where should i put my messages))
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((Both I guess. If you just put it in the Dana channel I'll transcribe with images but it'd be easier if you did both))
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??? has the paintbrush.
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((Both I guess. If you just put it in the Dana channel I'll transcribe with images but it'd be easier if you did both))
Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:13 PM
((ogey))
4:14 PM
"Oh." Harriet says firmly. "I get it now. Bastard."
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I try to eat the paintbrush.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:14 PM
"Don't do that!!!"
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??? is forced to not do that.
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"Aaaaagh!"
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"Aaarrgrhhh!" I splutter inexplicably.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:15 PM
Harriet frowns. "Hit yourself in the face."
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??? hits themself in the face.
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"NOooo!!!"
4:16 PM
I collapse to the floor and scream.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:17 PM
"Okay. Did I.. only just now realize? You're not doing anything I say because I want to. You're doing it because you have to, is that right? You have no choice."
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"Shut uuup!!"
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:19 PM
"I get it now. You never were the person I wanted you to be. But you're someone who doesn't have a choice in the matter, which I guess is better. You're kind of sick, you know?"
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"I have nothing to do with you!"
4:21 PM
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:26 PM
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I try to sneak behind Harriet and snap her neck.
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The bunker explodes, sending the walls flying at them. Everyone loses consciousness.
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-and-unknown
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The mall is just a crater at this point. ??? and Harriet both regain consciousness, but both are hurt and too weak to stand(for differing reasons on that last one). ??? is back in their body. Gordon's back is to a wall and he's been shot through the chest. He seems dead from this distance, but they're not close enough to check for sure. They're the only ones here.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:33 PM
Harriet coughs. "Fuck."
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"Uuugh..." I crawl towards Gordon and feel for a pulse.
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Alexi runs into the scene. "What… The fuck?"
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"I don't know!!" (edited)
4:35 PM
"Help me!" (edited)
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"Why should I help you?" Alexi tries to help up Harriet.
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"Because... I've done everything right!" (edited)
4:37 PM
"I'll give you my guns!"
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"You’ve been nothing but the worst!" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:37 PM
"You do kind of suck," Harriet says, holding onto Alexi.
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"How!?"
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Police sirens ring.
4:39 PM
"Fuck!" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:42 PM
"You've been nothing but cruel to me, and also kind of annoying, and - fuck!"
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"Harriet…" Alexi bites his lip. "I can’t carry you fast enough to get out of here."
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I look around for the paintbrush.
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It’s not here.
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I look around for the guns.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:46 PM
"Fuck." Harriet says. "Fuck. Where did my wheelchair go?"
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"It probably blew up, how should I know?" Alexi lets her go, and moves over to ???. "If I do this… You owe me."
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"What?"
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"If I carry you out of here, you’re helping me free her later, okay?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:51 PM
"Huh?"
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"Harriet! What do you think they’ll do to the only living person near the crime scene? Let her go with a pat on the back?" Alexi.
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"O...kay?"
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Alexi helps ??? stand up and drags him out of the area.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:54 PM
"Shit. You can't leave me behind, okay?"
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Alexi doesn’t answer.
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I let her drag me.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 4:56 PM
"I'm serious!"
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((Channel split))
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Avengard / harriet-kadin
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Harriet is alone.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 5:02 PM
Harriet breathes in. And out. And in. And out. Her head touches the ground. She is not afraid. She is not afraid. She is not afraid.
5:03 PM
She cannot be abandoned. The weight of her body is strong and grounding. She will not be left dead again, the meat of her body ruined, her broken legs, her battered... fuck. Never alone again.
5:03 PM
Harriet waits to die. Harriet waits to be rescued.
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The police arrive.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 5:04 PM
Harriet turns her cheek.
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They approach her with their guns out.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 5:17 PM
Harriet puts her hands up. "Don't shoot!"
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"Who are you?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 5:24 PM
"I'm Harriet, and I'm not... I'm not involved in this, please, I'm not supposed to be here."
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"Are you hurt?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 5:25 PM
"No, but I'm disabled, and I don't have my wheelchair."
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They carry Harriet into the back of a police car.
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Harriet Kadin 9/9/2023 5:27 PM
Harriet closes her eyes, exhausted.
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Harriet passes out. ((End session))
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((No session this week))
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((No session this week))
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Harriet Kadin BOT 9/16/2023 9:17 PM
grief
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Harriet Kadin 9/16/2023 10:27 PM
sydney
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 9/24/2023 11:58 AM
((finally..))
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((I decided to be nice))
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Harriet Kadin 9/24/2023 12:23 PM
((ty))
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Harriet wakes up in a police holding cell.
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:03 PM
Harriet groans and rubs her head. “Ugh.. what..?”
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Reporters are filing into the room outside the cell.
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:09 PM
“What the fuck?” Harriet says.
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A reporter looks at her. "Are you the one we’re here for?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:19 PM
“I.. what.” Says Harriet. “I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t know why I’m here..”
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"Oh." They lose interest in her.
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:27 PM
Harriet pulls herself to the corner, hyperventilating, and tries to figure out what’s going on, what her surroundings are like.
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It's a police station. The reporters are all facing away from her.
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:31 PM
"Can someone tell me what's happened?" Harriet asks.
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They ignore her.
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:37 PM
Harriet attempts to yell as loud as she possibly can.
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"What?" One of them turns around.
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:38 PM
"Can someone tell me what's going on?!?" Harriet insists.
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"They caught the criminal. Obviously."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:42 PM
Harriet grows even more confused, somehow. "What criminal? On what charges? What crime??"
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"Behind everything. We haven't been told more than that yet."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:51 PM
Harriet frowns. "Behind.. everything? Everything ever???"
2:51 PM
((is discord back..))
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"In this city recently."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 2:52 PM
"Oh. What.. criminal did they catch?"
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"We don’t know. They’re supposed to bring him out soon."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:10 PM
"Oh." Harriet says dimly, and sits back, waiting. Her chest feels so empty, like someone's taken a carving spoon to it and removed her insides as cleanly and neatly as a dissection. She knew, on some level, that Corpse Husband couldn't just be hers - not something she'd invented for her own benefit, not a pet. But she had wanted - and wants, still - with her whole body, the longing so palpable, to own something, for once. And instead he had gone for the fucking face before his whole body had snapped and fallen apart like a puppet off the strings - and she had been kind, hadn't she? All the cruelty had gone where it was supposed to, for once, thin and structured. She would have smiled, had she killed him, Harriet thought viciously. She wants to see him slide wetly down the blade, propped up, for thinking himself deserving of something else.
3:10 PM
Harriet does not hit herself. She sits with the big empty, the piles of fucking nothing.
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These 2 men bring Shawn Duveldt out in front of the crowd of reporters.
3:16 PM
"I give you... Shawn Duveldt." Older man.
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Advehnt Guard
Avengard / harriet-and-shawn
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:17 PM
((hiya))
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:17 PM
((hi))
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:17 PM
I walk forward, and for a second looks back spitefully at the man who introduced me (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:19 PM
Harriet frowns. "Didn't we talk on twitter once?"
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:22 PM
I look at the woman in the cage and very visibly recognize her, but don't say anything about it. (edited)
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"Your statement, Shawn?" Old man.
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:24 PM
"..."
3:30 PM
"My name is Shawn Duveldt. For roughtly the past week and a half, me and my partner have been a team of superheros, fighting against criminal organizations within this city. Our group was called the Advent Guard. I am called Beetle, and he was called Kite. In our adventures around this city, we encountered a great number of terrible people. Ranging from small time criminals who acted in their own interests, to larger organizations that would coerce and manipulate people into their ranks. I do not feel bad about what I have done. I believed, and still do believe, that what I did was justice. And I was able to execute it in a way the police force was either too scared to, or too wrapped up in to take care of without conflicting interests."
3:30 PM
"I have information on some of these organizations. I am prepared to reveal it publicly." (edited)
3:31 PM
"That, too, is my justice."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:31 PM
"Oh shit, superheroes are real?"
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:33 PM
"You've met one already."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:33 PM
"Seriously, how do I know you?"
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The reporters record and take some photos. "That's all, folks." The old man takes Shawn into the cell with Harriet.
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:38 PM
“Hey, I’m not done!”
3:38 PM
“The boss of the avengard mafia! I know who it is!”
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:40 PM
Harriet sits up.
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"Don't make accusations without evidence. It's a bad look." He shuts the cell door.
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:41 PM
"It's Maoziwam!"
3:41 PM
"Put that on your front pages."
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The reporters leave.
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:42 PM
"Damnit."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:43 PM
"Maoziwam?"
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:43 PM
"Shuichi Maoziwam. The rich dude?"
3:43 PM
"I'm sorry, that's a bad start. Harriet, right?"
3:43 PM
Shawn reaches out his hand
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:43 PM
Harriet shakes it.
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The old man leaves.
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:45 PM
Shawn sits in the corner of the cell
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:46 PM
"Shuichi Maoziwam.. god, it all comes back to that fucking guy, doesn't it?"
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:46 PM
"Yeah..."
3:46 PM
"Have you met his daugher? She's a real bitch."
3:46 PM
"Oh, well..."
3:47 PM
"I should confess something flat-out. Remember that guy last night in the weird halloween costume with the crowbar?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:47 PM
"Uh.. yeah."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:48 PM
"That was my... uh... friend. He had an audio device in his ear. I heard most things that happened then."
3:49 PM
"So, I guess I sorta know you already. Not really though. It's nice to meet formally."
3:50 PM
"What happened to you afterwards?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 3:52 PM
"Oh." Harriet frowns. "I feel like I should be mad at you for that, but to be honest.. I didn't have that much personal investment in the whole thing, so, whatever."
3:54 PM
"Anyways, what happened afterwards is that a guy I thought was a weird tulpa was real and tried to murder me like five times and then someone who I knew I couldn't trust and who I set up so many mental and physical barricades around myself solely so I wouldn't start to care about them betrayed me and left me here. And I still feel awful about it! I knew this was coming! Everyone could see it! I prepared myself for this, but I still wanted to believe.. that I was worth saving. That she would come back for me. That rancid bitch."
3:54 PM
Harriet buries her face in her worthless legs.
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:55 PM
"..." "My friend insisted that he go to that place alone. I tried my best to fight against it, but he was insistent. In the end, I made him promise that he would come back in one piece. He didn't keep it." "I don't know, I guess I should also have seen it coming. He was always one for a power trip. And it was a trap that we walked right into. But I wish it didn't have to be this way. I wish it could have been that he listened and he stayed with me. Would things have been ok then?" (edited)
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This woman is brought into the cell with them.
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 3:57 PM
"...Hi, Lillian."
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"Don't act smug." She sit down. "You're here with me now, too."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:01 PM
"Kite died. I don't know if you'd have heard."
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"Good."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:02 PM
"You're still no less of an asshole."
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She looks at his clothes. "You're less of one."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:05 PM
"Yeah. I guess I'm not much of a superhero anymore."
4:05 PM
"But you're not really a cult leader anymore, either."
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"I was never anything like that."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:06 PM
"Then what would you call yourself?"
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She doesn't answer. "Who are you?" She asks Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:07 PM
"Oh, I'm Harriet." Harriet says quietly. "I'm not supposed to be mixed up in all this.. or, if I was, it was all supposed to be hypothetical, you know? From a distance."
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"I've never heard of you."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:11 PM
"She was at this thing last night at the mall."
4:11 PM
"Wait, why were you at that thing at the mall last night anyway?"
4:12 PM
"Same with that other girl, i think Dana? What happened to her?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:12 PM
"That's a great question. I don't know. I was having a long dream.. and then I woke up in an honest-to-god cage."
4:12 PM
"I have no idea. I think she might've been bleeding out the last time I saw her."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:13 PM
"Did someone kidnap you or something?"
4:13 PM
"Do you have like enemies in the mob?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:16 PM
"Uh.. I don't know if I want to talk about that. Sorry."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:17 PM
"Hmph."
4:17 PM
"Well, whatever."
4:18 PM
Shawn puts his head down "I don't really even know why I'm asking. I'm done. I don't have my suit and I'm in jail. And there's no point in doing this without Kite."
4:19 PM
"There's nothing left for me to do."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:21 PM
Harriet leans her head against the side of the wall, wanting desperately to be anywhere else. "I wonder if he'll ever come back for me," She says quietly, almost without sound.
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"Do you trust him?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:24 PM
Harriet laughs. "No."
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"Then what's the point?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:27 PM
"It's the wanting to trust xem. Of thinking, maybe one day she's gonna come back for me, because maybe one day I'll have earned it. But I never will."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:28 PM
"Why do you have to prove anything to them?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:36 PM
Harriet looks blearily at Shawn, exhausted. "Because - I need to justify myself. I need to make up for.. the fact that it's me."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:41 PM
"..."
4:42 PM
"Have you ever played Masquerade V?"
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:44 PM
"..What?"
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:44 PM
"It's a video game. Great inspiration to me personally."
4:48 PM
"There's a bit in it where... Well, I guess its more of a reoccuring thing. There's all these people who feel like they need to justify their existnece by performing some kind of... societal function, I guess. Whether that's spending time with a creepy high school teacher or sucking up to a clearly awful principle or whatever."
4:48 PM
"What they learn, and I guess what the whole game is about, is that it's illusory. The people they see as dictating their value as people is just a singluar petty asshole, and they have value as individuals outside of that."
4:50 PM
"At the end of the day, the thing that justifies your existence is up to you. The choice to be beholden to the judgement of some asshole is a choice, and we can make different ones. I don't know that person, but they seems like a real asshole from what you've said. Whether they come back for you or not doesn't really matter."
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"How selfish."
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:51 PM
"Shut up."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:52 PM
Harriet laughs wetly, now scrubbing lamely at her face. "She is an asshole. But I am too. God, you don't even know.."
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"We're all waiting for a knight in shining armor... But only mine will come."
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:53 PM
"Right." Harriet croaks. "For sure."
4:55 PM
Harriet pushes away Shawn's words. She'll chew over them later, she decides, with a little pit in her stomach. Not now. "So, you're.. a superhero? Like, for real?"
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:55 PM
“I was.”
4:56 PM
“Lillian is a first hand witness. She’s one of the assholes who’s asses I kicked”
4:58 PM
((Okay I have to do a thing for like the next hour or so sorry))
4:58 PM
((Be back then))
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 4:58 PM
((that works out well i actually have to leave to do stuff stoday so we'll cut it here))
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((Bye))
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 4:59 PM
((im very glad i could bring back masquerade v relevence))
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 6:00 PM
((im back))
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Harriet Kadin 9/30/2023 6:20 PM
((I cannot resume today))
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Shawn Duveldt 9/30/2023 6:24 PM
((👍))
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((Hi))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:07 PM
((Hi))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:12 PM
((hi))
2:14 PM
"But yeah, me and Kite are a superhero team. We called ourselves the Advent Guard." (edited)
2:14 PM
"We were"
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:15 PM
"What does Advent Guard mean?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:15 PM
"The Advent is short for Adventure"
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"That’s incredibly stupid."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:16 PM
"I agree that that's stupid."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:17 PM
Shawn sighs, and looks blankly straight ahead
2:17 PM
"It was his idea. He had a lot of stupid ones."
2:17 PM
"I liked it, though."
2:18 PM
Shawn goes silent
2:21 PM
God, I'm never going to here from him again. Not any more of his awful jokes or his stupid egotistical remarks. He'll never be with me to do something stupid and rash and impulsive again. And... I'll never be there to go along with it. I'll never get to be with him when we're fighting some supervillain and I'll never get to worry about him being safe again. I'll never sit with him late at night and think about how amazing our future is going to be together. I'll never hug him again. I'll never tell him I love him again. I never got to say goodbye(dont click this is internal monologue) (edited)
2:22 PM
"..."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:26 PM
Harriet looks awkwardly to the side, hands wrapped around her waist. She doesn't know how to deal with.. grief. The all-encompassing weight of it, the pulse. The sight of it is vaguely discomforting, especially in person. Her mourning's always been saved for concepts - indistinct blurs of thought and feeling, the death of herself, the death of the person she ought to be, over and over. Even now, in this dinky prison cell with a random teenage boy blabbering on about video games, after Alexi had just left her there, to rot - Harriet recognizes her grief as only ever internal, violent. And the process of externalizing that anger had led her here. So terrifically alone.
2:27 PM
"I don't know what I'm doing." Harriet says.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:28 PM
"..."
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"I do."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:33 PM
i dont know what to do anymore. i don't know who I am anymore. Part of me... Most of me must have died when I pushed that button. I pushed that button, didn't I? I'm the one who killed him. I can't even save one single person. and hes the one person I cared about the most. The one I couldn't live without (edited)
2:33 PM
So what am I doing now? Living? Is this life?
2:34 PM
It doesnt feel like it. There's an endless gnawing sensation within me, like something is trying to eat me from the inside out. It's endless
2:35 PM
A swarm of insects consume my body and eat away at my soul
2:35 PM
"..."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:36 PM
"Well, I'm glad someone has this all figured out."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:36 PM
"Don't listen to her. She's like a cultist, or whatever."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:43 PM
"Oh. I didn't know we had these here."
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"Don’t oversimplify things."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:44 PM
"What would you call it, then?" (edited)
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"Edlightenment."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:50 PM
"Just cuz your cult has a fancy name doesn't mean its not a cult"
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"My father knows what he’s doing."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:51 PM
"Your father?"
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"…Yes."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:54 PM
"He's not her actual dad. He's like her weird cult dad."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:54 PM
"..Ah. And what cult is this?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:55 PM
"She said it already, theyre called the Edlightment. It's a weird suicide cult where they believe emotion you feel as you die is the one you'll feel for eternity."
2:56 PM
"They're connected to the mob, somehow."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 2:56 PM
"Everything's connected to the fucking mob."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 2:58 PM
I turn to Lillian "How much do you believe in that stuff, anyway?"
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"It’s not about belief." Lillian.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:00 PM
"Then what is it?"
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"Love, of course."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:04 PM
"Do you really think he loves you? More then just as a tool?"
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"Of course he does!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:05 PM
Harriet butts in. "God. You're really fucking adept at lying to yourself, you know? I don't even know you and I can already tell."
3:05 PM
"Whoever you're talking about - he doesn't have the capacity to love you. He's empty and broken inside."
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"That… That doesn’t mean he doesn’t love me!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:09 PM
"It's literally not possible. There's something - just fundamentally wrong and ugly, with him. You can give as much as yourself up as you want, you can slit your throat on the steps of his house and bleed out but it'll never mean anything because he's nothing. He's disgusting. And so are you, for all of this. You're so fucking stupid with need." Harriet glances to the side, face stinging. "It makes me sick."
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"Take that back!"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:11 PM
Shawn stays silent
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:11 PM
"I won't."
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"You don’t know him… You don’t know me… So keep it to yourself!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:16 PM
"I know enough. God, you're pathetic."
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"Don’t lecture me!"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:20 PM
"I don't understand how you can't recognize it for what it is. Blythe and his cronies took you in after they orphanated you and told you that you had a purpose, and now you've done the same to a bunch of other kids."
3:20 PM
"They're using you for their dirty work."
3:24 PM
Shawn kinda trails off at the end, and starts staring into the wall, deep in thought.
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"Your boyfriend did that to you. Don’t project those things onto me."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:26 PM
Shawn doesn't have a response
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:27 PM
"More than one person can be used."
3:27 PM
Harriet stares at the wall.
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"At least you can’t." Lillian motions to her legs.
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:34 PM
Harriet glares at her. "Fuck off."
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"You started it!"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:35 PM
Geez, aren't they supposed to be adults.
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:36 PM
"I'm not going to apologize for being correct."
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"Neither am I!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:39 PM
"Well.. fine." Harriet crosses her arms and stares coldly at the wall.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:40 PM
"Can we talk about something else."
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"You didn’t seem the type to be affected by low blows." Lillian continues.
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:48 PM
"Are you a fucking child?" Harriet says.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 3:49 PM
Shawn puts his hands to his temples
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"Take back what you said about him!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 3:55 PM
"Oh my god, you are. Fucking get over it, you idiot. This is life! The systems and hegemonies and people designed to protect you will fail you, over and over, and you're actively delusional to believe otherwise. He's not coming back for you."
3:55 PM
"No one is."
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"…Then at least I’ll be able to get out on my own."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:00 PM
"Shut the fuck up. You're sooo fucking original. Wow!! I can't walk!! I've never heard that one before. It's easier to punch down than it is to actually look at yourself, right? Just for a moment? So you can see - really see - just how deluded you are?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:02 PM
"..."
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Lillian grabs her by the throat and attempts to strangle her.
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:14 PM
Harriet begins choking and attempts to pry her off.
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((Roll))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:15 PM
“Hey, stop!”
4:15 PM
Shawn pushes them apart
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((Roll))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:16 PM
((1 lmao))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:17 PM
((3))
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Shawn trips and falls over. Harriet keeps on being choked. Lillian stares her down coldly.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:19 PM
“Shit” Shawn gets back up and pushes them apart again
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((Roll))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:20 PM
((4))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:21 PM
Harriet attempts to push her away again.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:22 PM
((4)) ((we suck at this))
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Both fail. Lillian looses her grip enough for Harriet to speak. "Apologize."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:23 PM
Shawn rushes in once again and shoves Lillian away really hard
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((Roll))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:24 PM
((20))
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((Waiting for Harriet’s response before I say the outcome of the roll, to be clear))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:35 PM
((oh sorry))
4:35 PM
"I'm not apologizing to you," Harriet chokes out.
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Lillian is pushed over to the floor.
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:40 PM
((gotta go))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:40 PM
((damn))
4:40 PM
((was Good tho))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:44 PM
((Wait nvm))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:44 PM
((lol)) (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:44 PM
((I thought I had a thing at 5 but it was actually at 4)) ((I’m dumb))
4:44 PM
((OH WELL))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:44 PM
((did u miss it lol))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:46 PM
((Yes 🥲))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:46 PM
((unfortunate))
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:46 PM
((it’s okay.. more time to AG :P))
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:47 PM
((i will probably also have to go in like 40 minust so i can get some hw done today lol)) (edited)
4:48 PM
"We're done fighting."
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:48 PM
((np))
4:49 PM
Harriet coughs and rubs her throat.
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"Do you really think you can tell me what to do?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:52 PM
"It's over. We're done. Look around you."
4:52 PM
"Save the fighting for actual prison, okay?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 4:55 PM
"God." Harriet says. "How long are we gonna be in here for?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:58 PM
Shawn moves back to the wall and leans against it. "However long we have to. But I don't want to fight anyone, okay. I don't think you do either, Lillian."
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"You don’t want to fight anyone?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 4:59 PM
"Kite's dead, Lillian."
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"What makes you think I care?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:02 PM
"Well... I don't think you were wrong about me, I guess."
5:03 PM
"...What's important is that we're not going to goad eachother anymore, okay."
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"I’d be free right now, if not for you."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:06 PM
"Don't blame me. Kite only started passionately hating you guys after what you did to him, and I was following after him. Really, you brought this onto yourself."
5:07 PM
"But I did too. So we're equals here, I think."
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"We’re nowhere near equals."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:12 PM
I don't say anything for a second. There's a really awkward silence (edited)
5:13 PM
"Who was Kite's other bro, Lillian?" (edited)
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She smirks.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:16 PM
"What was his name?"
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"I don’t know what you’re talking about." She answers mockingly.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:17 PM
"Don't mock me. I was there during the interview."
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"Why would I tell you anything?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:19 PM
"You've got no reason to withhold it. We're both trapped here."
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"I’m not."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:19 PM
"Well I am. I don't see myself getting out anytime soon. If you get out of here, I'll stop being an issue to whatever cult shit you've got."
5:20 PM
"You said you do everything for love, right? Then you'd understand where I'm coming from. I just want closure."
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"…It wouldn’t help."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:26 PM
"That's not for you to judge."
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"Yes, it is."
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:27 PM
"You didn't know him."
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"Does that really matter?"
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Shawn Duveldt 10/7/2023 5:29 PM
"Just tell me. Please."
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Lillian sits down.
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Harriet Kadin 10/7/2023 5:35 PM
Harriet rubs her face, exhausted.
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A cop approaches. "Shawn Duveldt. Lillian Mooney. You’re being transferred." "That is not my name." Lillian. ((End session))
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"That is not my name." Lillian.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/21/2023 2:01 PM
"Transferred?"
2:01 PM
"Where?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:02 PM
Harriet frowns, confused.
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"To prison. You’re going to be held there until trial." Cop. Lillian smirked. "Do you really think that will be able to hold me?" "Yes." The cop handcuffed her again.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/21/2023 2:04 PM
Shawn sighs
2:05 PM
"It was nice meeting you, Harriet. I hope you get out of this okay."
2:07 PM
"And, uh, take care of yourself."
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The cop handcuffed Shawn as well.
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Shawn Duveldt 10/21/2023 2:08 PM
"The Lelouch thing takes a week to wear off, by the way. I'd avoid her until then."
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Shawn and Lillian are led away.
2:10 PM
((Channel split unless Harriet wants to say some parting words))
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:12 PM
"Goodbye."
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Harriet is alone in the cell.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:13 PM
Harriet rests her head against the wall, exhausted. (edited)
2:15 PM
There's no room in her brain for anything other than fear and terror in sinking steps. She never wanted this. Any of this. But from the very beginning it had been the only choice - for her to dig her own grave with her own fucking hands, every action a step further, another shovel of fucking mulch. The blackmail. The phone call. The torture. That pale room. Carl's hand on her shoulder. Alexi winking at her like they shared a fucking secret. Sarah staring at her in the dim light like there was something wrong with her, like she was - the cripple. The needy faggot.
2:15 PM
Harriet buries her face in her hands.
2:16 PM
No one is coming to save her. Isn't that the truth? Hey. Tell me.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:17 PM
Harriet closes her eyes and begs herself - to be asleep. Or, failing that, to be someone else. Anyone else.
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Harriet finds herself in an unfamiliar apartment. Alexi leaps out of a window onto a fire escape, and ??? chases after him with a knife. As ??? jumps through the window and misses the fire escape, reality seems to pull Harriet with them out of the window as they fall onto the ground below.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:26 PM
Harriet follows.
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Both hit the ground. Harriet finds herself back in the same cell with a shock.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:37 PM
Harriet gasps and looks around blearily, trying to figure out if anything's changed.
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Nothing.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:42 PM
Harriet stubbornly closes her eyes again, attempting to go back.
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Nothing. "Harriet Kadin." A cop approaches.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:44 PM
Harriet looks up at the cop. "Hello?"
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"It’s time for your interrogation."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:46 PM
"Um.. okay." Harriet says hesitantly.
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They open the door. "Stand up."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:51 PM
"I'm disabled." Harriet says flatly. "I can't walk."
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"Oh. Do you have a wheelchair?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 2:54 PM
"No." (edited)
2:54 PM
"Not with me currently."
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"…Fine. Give me a second." The cop left.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:03 PM
Harriet waits.
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The cop returns with some kind of weak looking emergency wheelchair. It’d probably be very uncomfortable if she could feel it.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:09 PM
"Could you help me with this?" Harriet says plainly, gesturing to the chair.
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The cop rolls his eyes, and helps Harriet onto the wheelchair.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:14 PM
Harriet bristles, but follows along with it.
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Harriet is rolled into the interrogation room.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:16 PM
"Um... Hello." Harriet says.
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An intimidating female detective Harriet did not recognize sat down across from her, and the other cop left.
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:27 PM
Harriet inclines her head at her.
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"Harriet Kadin, correct?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:28 PM
"Yes, that's correct."
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"You’re employed as a secretary for one Carl Tucker?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:31 PM
"Yes."
3:31 PM
"Can I ask what this is about?"
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"You’re not in charge of this interrogation."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:34 PM
Harriet leans back and frowns. "Don't I have a right to a lawyer?"
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"Do you know what kind of person calls a lawyer?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:38 PM
"...A person who wants to be fairly represented in the justice system?"
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"A criminal with something to hide."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:40 PM
"I.. don't think that's true."
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"Of course you wouldn’t. But it’s true. Lawyers are just designed to protect the guilty from having to face consequences."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:49 PM
"Aren't they, like your colleagues?"
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"…In a sense."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 3:53 PM
"I don't think you should be talking poorly of them."
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"Don’t think you can tell me what to do."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 4:01 PM
"It's just a suggestion."
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"You’re a criminal. You’ve lost any authority you might ever have possessed."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 4:07 PM
Harriet's mouth twists. She feels - something in her move, savagely, like an animal. She's so tired. (edited)
4:08 PM
All she's ever wanted was to be - her own. Not jerked, thoughtlessly, between extremes, to put her hand against the flame and feel it burn, to feel herself cleanly broken in two. She turns her face in the direction of pain. Allows it to wash over her. (edited)
4:08 PM
"You sound like a really shitty cop," she says. (edited)
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"I’m the only cop here willing to fight for the law!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 4:14 PM
Harriet laughs. "It's nice that you're telling yourself that. Do you have a quota you need to fill or something? How many civilians can I pick off the street and harass in a week?" (edited)
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"You weren’t picked off the street. You were at the site of a bombing, completely unharmed while anyone else around died."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 4:20 PM
"Yes, and I suppose that matters to you, doesn't it. How many people do you kill a year?"
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"I never killed anyone."
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Harriet Kadin 10/21/2023 4:30 PM
((gotta goooo sory))
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((See ya!))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 10/27/2023 8:03 PM
((Tomorrow I’ll probably either be late or won’t be able to show up, can we do Sunday instead))
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((I suppose so, sure))
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 1:59 PM
((hi))
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"I never killed anyone."
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 2:12 PM
"Sure. By inaction, then?"
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"Inaction? And what have you done to help people? I spend every day of my life upholding the law to protect people."
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 2:17 PM
Harriet bristles. "Who are you protecting? Who benefits from this?"
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"People! Honest working people!"
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 2:34 PM
"Really? By locking up their family members? And refusing to believe them when they tell you about abuse? By turning a blind eye when other cops do it?"
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"What are you even talking about?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 2:36 PM
Harriet seethes. "You know what I'm fucking talking about. Are you stupid or something?"
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"I’m the only one with a functioning brain in this city. Do you really think your family would hear you’re a terrorist and whine to the police for stopping you?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 2:46 PM
Harriet dismissively waves her hand. "My family is irrelevant - I don't have one. This isn't about me, okay? This is about - about who gets to be a terrorist." She leans forwards. "It's the ugly, mean brown girl and it's the cripple and it's both at once. You want to hurt me. Because I was an ontological terrorist before all this started. That your city is not full of beautiful people. So you want to hurt me. Because it's good to hurt me. Because it's easy to hurt me. Because it's clean to hurt me." (edited)
2:46 PM
Harriet feels a weight lifted off her chest. It feels - so good to say that and mean it. The compactness of the pain. This body that was built for it.
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"I’m just doing my job. You did this to yourself. Do you think you’re smart by committing a crime and making a big show of how racist it is you got caught? Do you think you’re smarter than the system? A system every respectable citizen to ever inhabit this country poured their blood, sweat, and tears into forming? And then you think you can come and change everything to the way you want it because it’s just so hard being you? I may not be a useless brown cripple, but I’m not perfect either. I’m a woman. But you don’t see me hurting everyone else in some big show, do you? No, I put in all the work I can to catch up to men because that’s what’s right!" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 2:59 PM
Harriet laughs. nearly giddy with it. "Oh my god. You're really stupid, aren't you? Because from the beginning you've wanted to hurt them just like you want to hurt me. Those men. Because it's unfair. And the only way you've ever been taught to articulate is through state-sanctioned violence, so you take it out on the cripple when you wish it could be the men. I get it now. I bet it makes you feel so smart. To be able to redirect carceral punishment to everyone who you can pretend deserves it. Aren't you fucking clever? You get to build your life off of this disposability and corrosion, the expulsion, the cold wound. And you'll never get what's been stolen from you."
3:00 PM
"I get it now. You can pretend I'm someone else when you inevitably beat me unconscious. I promise I won't take it personally."
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"Is that what you want? You want to attacked? Too scared to punish yourself so you need me to do it for you?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:03 PM
"Come on. Won't it be good for the both of us?" (edited)
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"Are you mocking me?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:07 PM
"No. I'm just being honest."
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She raises her hand into a trembling fist. "Do you really you can provoke me? Are you going to try to use that to score a softer sentence? I see right through you."
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:13 PM
"Why would I use this to get a softer sentence? This is all about punishment, remember?"
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"Do it, then. Hit me first. Provoke me."
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:16 PM
Harriet frowns. "That's not - the goal here."
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"Then what is, huh? Are you sad daddy didn’t hit you enough?"
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:27 PM
Harriet punches her in the face. (edited)
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:27 PM
((15))
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Harriet punches her in the face hard enough to bruise, and she falls out of her chair. "You bitch…" She lunges at Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:29 PM
Harriet scrambles backwards.
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She punches Harriet repeatedly.
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:31 PM
Harriet makes no effort to move, letting herself go limp.
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((This is how she looks for note))
3:34 PM
"Yeah, you deserve this. You piece of shit. You’ve been begging for this for years, I bet! Always wanting someone to put you in your place! Is that why you turned to crime? Were you so desperate for someone to give you what you deserve? Don’t worry, I’ll give you all the pain you want!" She stares at Harriet with pure hatred as she keeps punching her.
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Harriet Kadin 10/29/2023 3:48 PM
Harriet gasps and begins to writhe on the ground, her body instinctively reacting to the pain. She manages to smile through it - almost sleazily.
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"A criminal like you deserves this, Fungu-" The wall explodes, blowing them both away and knocking them out. ((End chapter))
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Finale: Advehnt Guard
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Harriet regained consciousness on the floor of an exploded interrogation room. The detective is unconscious. Alexi is shaking her awake.
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:04 PM
Harriet groans, exhausted. “What….”
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"Come on!" They hold the shitty wheelchair next to Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:13 PM
Harriet clambers into it. "What the fuck? What's going on?"
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"I told you I’d get you out! I kind of… Got desperate, okay?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:17 PM
"Did you... blow up the building??? What?? What's happening.."
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"Just 1 wall!"
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:21 PM
"Oh, that's much better."
2:21 PM
Harriet hesitates. Puts her hand to her face. And then, quietly - "Thank you. For not leaving me here."
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"Yeah, thanks for the guilt trip. Get on the fucking wheelchair."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:30 PM
"It's not a guilt trip!! I'm trying to be genuine here, jesus."
2:30 PM
Harriet gets on the fucking wheelchair.
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Alexi rushes outside with Harriet on wheelchair before anyone else arrives. "Oh, and fuck that guy I took with me. He tried to kill me."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:36 PM
"I hate that fucking guy."
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"Hav Kerloe."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:39 PM
"I... is that what he's calling himself?"
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"It’s his real name. I got it from a DNA test. He got so pissed when I called him on that that he tried to kill me."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:44 PM
Harriet frowns. "He's sort of been haunting me."
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"Or maybe I've been haunting him. It's unclear."
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"But I keep having visions. With him as the focal point."
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"Visions? You mean dreams?" She pulls into an alleyway far enough from the police station to lay low. "I guess I can’t be too dismissive though. This did all start with you having a ghost friend suddenly."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:50 PM
"Yes, but they're not just dreams. It's like I'm there."
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Harriet pauses before admitting the next part, quietly. "I can stand in them."
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"Yeah, that totally doesn’t sound like a stupid dream you'd come up with."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 2:58 PM
Harriet flinches. "Fuck off, alright? This is serious. To me."
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"Hey, I literally just saved you!"
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 3:05 PM
"Yes, but - I don't need you to be cruel about this. These dreams were realer than my life half the fucking time."
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"Liar."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 3:12 PM
"What the fuck do you mean, liar?"
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"Oh please, like you’d ever actually want your legs to work. Then you’d have to rely on something other than being the pathetic cripple. You’d have to survive on something that isn’t the fucking pity of others. Those dreams of yours are fucking nightmares to your miserable existence. You know you’d still be nothing if I just didn’t feel so bad for you."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 3:41 PM
((sorry for the delay im back))
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Harriet's face flushes hot, then cold. "Right. Because what's the alternative? Being you? The needy faggot all alone? You don't feel bad for me. It's just easier for you to pretend this is some - self-flaggelation interpersonal violence routine because then you're not using me." Harriet punches herself in the nose. This time, it is on purpose. No one wants her to do this but her. Maybe that's been it the whole time. She doesn't know.
3:44 PM
She hits herself again. "You want me to be hurting myself because then you aren't hurting me. Because then all of the shit you say about fucking over the big guys with their hands in the world's pockets means anything instead of being useless posturing. You want me to hurt myself so you can pretend that it isn't the only thing you've ever fucking wanted from me, this pain."
3:44 PM
"Here I am," Harriet smiles, nose bloodied. "Fresh for the fucking picking. I'm hurting myself just so you can keep pretending. Isn't that so kind of me?"
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"What the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously? How do you think this was going to convince me you’re not addicted to drowning in your own miserable pity."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 4:02 PM
"What do you mean what's wrong with me? You spring me out of jail and then make sure I know at every moment that you're only doing it because you pity me. You steal my fucking wheelchair and strand me in your room. Do you think this makes you a good person? That I'm the only weird fucking pervert or whatever? You're sick."
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"Pervert? So this IS a sex thing?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 4:06 PM
"It's not a fucking sex thing! Why does everyone think it's a sex thing!!!!!"
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"It's only - it's only fucking that because he can't stop making it that. Because I can't... I'm not..."
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Harriet trails off into incoherent mumbling.
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"You just said it was! I wasn’t accusing you of anything, but you always have to go and ramble about things like this! Sorry someone actually listened to you for once! I know that’s an alien concept to you, given how obsessed you are with Carl."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 4:10 PM
Harriet's entire body flinches as if she's been struck. Her face blanches, pale. She puts her head in her hands, making horrible, aborted little noises of anguish, as if she wants to cry, but she physically can't.
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She pushes her fists against her eyes, hard enough for them to ache. "I don't have a choice, I can't - I only say these things because I don't know how not to. It's the only thing that's ever made me useful. To be used and thrown away."
4:12 PM
A dry heave. She wants to throw up.
4:12 PM
"I have to talk my way out of being-" (edited)
4:12 PM
Harriet doesn't finish the sentence.
4:13 PM
She pauses, there. The sound of her consumptive retching, the only thing left.
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"It’s okay." She looks at Harriet almost empathetically. "Not everyone learns to lie like me."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 4:22 PM
Harriet rubs her eyes. She's so tired. "It's a learned fucking skill."
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"You want me to talk to you like an equal right? Like I don’t know how to live as a human being?"
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 4:29 PM
"I guess."
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"Or do you want me to lie the other way? To pretend like I’m your emotional wheelchair and let you walk all over me and promise that I really do love you sooooo much." She speaks with sarcasm and immense disgust. "You can kiss me if you want. It’d mean nothing to me, but I bet you’d feel so proud of yourself that you broke the edgy asshole down into your fucking doormat. Take me home to Carl like I’m a fucking mouse a cat like you wants to show off. Come on. Don’t bother lying. How disgusting are you?" (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 4:46 PM
Harriet bites hard on her bottom lip. "I don't want to kiss you. I don't want that. Does that prove it to you? That I'm a person? That I don't want to burn myself alive for the sake of it? I won't. I won't."
4:47 PM
"I'm better than him." Her voice is shaky but clear. "I'm better than him. I'm better than him. I'm not the weapon. I don't want to be the weapon anymore."
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There's a moment of clarity, her head above cold water, before she's drowning again. "Please tell me to stop."
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"…Stop it."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 4:50 PM
Harriet reaches out. Her hand brushes Alexi's cheek. A moment - of violence. Of a knife being held over a head in the dark. Harriet's eyes, cruel and sharp. The look in her eyes is clear. I could if I wanted to. If I wanted you I could have you. I'm not doing it because I want to prove a point. But I want you to live like me - like a fucking scared animal - always knowing that I could.
4:51 PM
This is what Harriet wants to say. She doesn't say it. She draws her hand back. (edited)
4:51 PM
The threat is obvious. (edited)
4:52 PM
Her hand returns to her side. "I'm stopping."
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 5:01 PM
((gotta gooooo))
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Alexi's expression to Harriet is sheer terror. ((See ya!!!!))
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Harriet Kadin 11/25/2023 5:03 PM
((GREAT ending message)) (edited)
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 1:51 PM
((i’ll be about 15 minutes late))
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Alexi's expression to Harriet is sheer terror.
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 2:20 PM
Harriet's face hardens. She turns away. "We should get back to the business at hand."
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"Oh yeah? And what is that? Discussing just how fucked we are?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 2:27 PM
"I don't know. Forgive me for hoping you had some kind of plan."
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"Well... I was rushing here, okay! Maybe stop making me do all the work, huh?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 2:35 PM
"Okay, well..." Harriet trails off. She doesn't know where she's going with this. "Maybe we should back up."
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"How did you blow the wall up?"
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"Enough google searches to put me on a watchlist."
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 2:45 PM
"I guess we should.." Harriet hesitates. "I don't know what we should do. I don't even know what's going on anymore."
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"Run. We should run before everything decides to crash on us instead of the dozens of people who should be more at fault."
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 2:49 PM
"To where?"
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"Away. As far as we can run."
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 2:59 PM
"But where is there to go?" Harriet says, almost desperate. "We're tangled up in something way bigger than us. I mean, fuck, you just blew up a building! Where could we run that someone wouldn't find us?"
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"1 wall! I blew up 1 wall! There’s a big difference!"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 3:02 PM
"Nevermind the wall! I don't..." Harriet wrings her hands together anxiously. "Don't we have a responsibility to fix this?"
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"How could we possibly be the ones with that responsibility? Do you just put yourself up on the first cross you find?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 3:07 PM
"It's not like that! I'm not saying we're the most at fault here, but it's not like we did nothing."
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"Leave Hav to fix it! We don’t owe anyone anything!"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 3:11 PM
"He doesn't seem inclined to fix anything, if you ask me."
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"Yeah, well I don’t care. Why are we supposed to be punished for supposedly being such great people. Stop being a 'good person' or keep letting people walk on you for the rest of your life."
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 3:34 PM
"It's not supposed to be a punishment. Doing the right thing."
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"Of course it’s a punishment! What, is it a reward? Being told what to do?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 3:54 PM
When Harriet speaks, the words are from somewhere else, dredged-up. "Of course it's not. But it's not like I can do anything else."
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"Oh my god... You're insufferable. It's always the same thing with you! Oh no... I can't do anything except what I was told to do! Shut the fuck up! You think I didn't start out in the same shitty position as you? We're the same, Harriet. Any problems you have now are solely your fault."
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 4:00 PM
"It's not about whatever complex you think I have!" Harriet throws her hands up in the air. "It's because I literally can't! There's some stupid metaphysical narrative force beating the shit out of me every time I try!"
4:01 PM
"You talk a big fucking game about how pathetic I am but in the end of I was quiet and demure and sensible in your direction you wouldn't mind, because it's all about the ethics of where the power's allowed to go."
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"Oh my god, a fucking narrative force now? How am I supposed to believe your bullshit when you say things like that! It's like you're trying to make yourself seem as pathetic as possible. And sure... I'd appreciate it if you respected everything I do for you instead of sucking up to the most pathetic man alive but you know what I'd appreciate even more? If you were goddamn useful!" She kicks Harriet's wheelchair.
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 4:09 PM
Harriet scrambles for leverage, gripping the sides of her chair. "Is that so fucking impossible to believe? We've been talking about ghosts and possession for the last hour. Is it that incomprehensible that there might be something more than me?"
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"You're asking me to believe we're in some kind of predetermined story! How is that not more insane than ghosts and possession?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 4:11 PM
Harriet is near-incoherent. "Because it isn't. It never was! I don't want to be this person! I don't want to play this game anymore! Flagellation and violence and near-constant humiliation. But it's either this or be the instrument of harm and I don't want to be that either."
4:13 PM
Her hands shake. "I could hurt you very badly and I know this is true because I want it like I've wanted for nothing else before. I want you to understand what it's like to be at the bottom of the boot. To know that this is your only choice because the alternative is being the person who hurts other people. And the question remains - what if I like it? What if I want more?"
4:14 PM
"I'm not doing it. Because I'm a good person. I'm not hurting you. Because I need to be a good person for a little while more. Of course it's a story. What else could it be?"
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"Hit me if you think I deserve it so badly! I don't mind! But just know I could've abandoned you in there and I didn't! So if you want to keep playing with absolutes while I bend over backwards to save me then do it! Hit me! Convince me that I don't need you!"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 4:29 PM
Harriet raises her hand in the air again, a cruel pantomime of what came before. Kiss or fist.
4:29 PM
This time, it makes contact. Harriet slaps her. Very lightly. Barely a whisper.
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"Pathetic. Hit me harder!"
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 4:40 PM
Harriet reels forward and hits her again. It sucks. (edited)
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"You’re pathetic." Alexi. "There you are! Oh… Is this- Is this a bad time?" Carl Tucker enters the alleyway.
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 5:05 PM
Harriet draws her hand back. "...Carl." She says, quiet.
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"I didn’t… I didn’t know you had a boyfriend. That’s… I’m- I’m cool with that. Feminism. Or something like that…" Carl. Alexi turns to him. "Fuck you. How did you find us?" "Oh, I uh… I just hired these guys." Carl. Several armed mercenaries enter the alley and block off both ends.
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Harriet Kadin 12/2/2023 5:08 PM
"What the fuck." Harriet says flatly.
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"I’m not… I’m not gonna let you use me anymore, Harriet." Carl. ((End session))
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12: Consequences
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"I’m not… I’m not gonna let you use me anymore, Harriet." Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:04 PM
Harriet raises her hands in a manner she hopes is.. somewhat placating. "What.. are you doing, Carl?"
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Alexi does the same. "I know… I know you’ve been using me. That- That you don’t care about me. I’m just a wallet to you, r-right? Just… Just an object. I bet you’d never understand that, huh? Did you think you could hide that you were stealing from me forever? I’m smart! I-I am! Or… Or at least, if I’m an idiot, I’d prefer to be one who’s on top." He might somehow be the most panicked one here. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:08 PM
"Carl... that's not true. Who told you that?"
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"Don’t lie to me!" He shakes his head. "You’re cheating on me, right? You’ve been giving my money to this man? What does he have that I don’t?" Carl points at Alexi. "I don’t even know where I’d begin to answer something that stupid!" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:11 PM
"Carl, do I look like the sort of person who would do that?" Harriet stumbles over her words. "We don't... we don't need to get these guys involved with this." She waves her hand in the direction of the armed mercenaries. "I wouldn't throw you to the wolves like that, if it were me."
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"Yes… Yes you would. You told me you would, just the other day before you abandoned me for days like you promised you wouldn’t." Carl. "As much as I hate to interrupt this healthy couple's argument, I really have no relevance here." Alexi. "Sh-Shut up! Why else would she secretly be meeting with a man here?" Carl. "I am not a man-" Alexi is pushed down to the ground by an armed mercenary who aims a gun at their head. "Harriet, I swear to god if you let me die right here to something this stupid I will personally convince whatever god is up there that you deserve to go to hell."
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:21 PM
Harriet attempts to roll herself in Carl's direction. "Carl. Look at me. Would I say something like that? I wouldn't. You don't have to hurt anyone. Isn't it better, to not hurt anyone?" She gestures at Alexi on the ground. "Just let Alexi go home and we can - talk this out."
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"You’re not denying it! You’re just… You’re just trying to trick me! It’s like what everyone was saying about my brother! You’re all just confusing me!" Carl. "Harriet, stop the fucking gaslighting routine and lie to him like a normal person." Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:29 PM
"You are not helping." Harriet hisses at Alexi, before turning back to Carl. "I wouldn't do that! Here I am denying it, Carl. I just want you to know - no matter what you've heard from anyone else, you can trust me. I wouldn't hurt you."
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"Sorry, I don’t excel at sucking off narcissistic sociopaths!" Alexi. "Make your boyfriend shut up right now! Or… Or else." Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:34 PM
"He's not-" Harriet stops herself and turns to Alexi. "Shut up! Do you want to get shot?? Weren't you just talking about how fucking important self-preservation was??"
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"He’s pissing me off on purpose!" Alexi. "I’d rather die than go along with him!" She wouldn’t. He shuts up after saying this.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:37 PM
Harriet exhales, a terrible rattling breath. She's scared. But it's fine. She can - she can salvage this. "Just call them off, Carl. It's okay. It'll be okay."
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"I… I can’t." Carl mumbles. "They… They won’t leave me until they hurt someone for me. It’s- It’s out of my hands, y’know?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:45 PM
Harriet's breath stalls. "What do you mean, they won't leave until they hurt someone? What did you do, Carl?"
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"I didn’t… I didn’t… I just got them from Ouroboros. I don’t-" His phone rings. "Oh, I-I have to take this. It’s the boss." He picks it up. "Hello?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:48 PM
Harriet watches him, heart pounding in her chest.
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"The code? Wh-Why? Are you using me too?" Carl. "Harriet! Psst!" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:50 PM
Harriet scoots over. "What?" She whispers.
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"You have to manipulate him. Not in this stupid baby way, really tap into him. You have to convince him he can only trust you. Throw his other support pillar under the bus, ideally. Use… The Yale Tucker rumour or something." Alexi. "Why would I tell you?" Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 2:59 PM
"His gay brother?" Harriet whispers.
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"Yeah, he’s gay but he’s also dead. Rumours say his boyfriend, Sean Niebel, killed him. It’s probably nonsense but who’s going to lose sleep over making Carl hate an actual piece of shit instead of us." Alexi. "Uh… Can’t you ask Mr Maoziwam?" Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 3:07 PM
"How would I use that against him? Just be like... 'By the way, your brother is a dead homosexual in case you forgot, now please let us go.'???"
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"Are you an idiot? Convince him his brother was actually killed by his old boss he loved and the rumours are true! Now he really has no choice but to rely on you unless he wants to be alone." Alexi. "His… His memory?" Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/16/2023 3:12 PM
"Alright, alright." Harriet hisses. "I'll try."
3:12 PM
((leaving now, gotta work on finals stuff 🫡 ))
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((See ya))
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((Saturday))
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2023 11:57 AM
((i probably won’t be able to make it on the 23rd bc Christmas stuff, it’s more plausible for me to do a session on the 20th or 21st if that works for u?))
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((Yeah that’s fine 21st works best))
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Harriet Kadin 12/17/2023 11:59 AM
((mizukithumbsup))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2023 1:44 PM
(;sorry ik i said i would do a session today but i am sick and barely conscious so i don’t think i can write sorry))
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((Okay I hope you feel better soon oomfie ily))
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Harriet Kadin 12/21/2023 1:47 PM
((ily2 woomfei))
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((Saturday))
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"Oh… Okay." Carl repeats the code to Shuichi’s penthouse into the phone.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 2:30 PM
((Hey, not sure if it’s happening today - I’ll lyk, but it’ll be in about half an hour if it does happen))
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 2:59 PM
((sorry, another half an hour - in car rn))
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 3:42 PM
Harriet inches forwards, listening intently.
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Carl closes the phone. "Oh, he uh… He hung up."
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 3:46 PM
"Carl..." Harriet says, softly. "What's bringing this on? You seem... stressed. Haunted." (edited)
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"Bringing what on? I don’t- I didn’t- Huh?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 3:49 PM
"This.. upset. Is this what you want? To isolate yourself?"
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"What’s uh- What’s happening?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 3:50 PM
Harriet gestures broadly at the armed mercenaries. "This, Carl. Using violence to push other people away."
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"This… Isn’t my fault! I’ve done nothing wrong! You’re the one who abandoned me!"
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 3:53 PM
"Carl..." Harriet says quietly. "I didn't abandon you. Everyone else did. Your wife... your brother.."
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"That’s- That’s- That doesn’t sound fair…" Carl. "Your boss killed your brother!" Alexi. "That’s just a rumour!" Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 3:56 PM
"It's a rumour you know is true."
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"No, I- He told me it wasn’t! Why would he lie?" Carl. "Is that a fucking joke?" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:01 PM
"Why would he tell the truth? He did it. You know it. He knows it. I know it. Everybody knows it. He did it because he wanted to take something from you that you deserved. How does that feel, Carl?"
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He’s breathing shakily. "I don’t… I’m gonna call him." He goes on his phone again.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:03 PM
"He'll just deny it, but go ahead. Watch him reveal himself."
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"…The boss is dead." Carl. (edited)
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:05 PM
"...What?"
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"He fell… Shuichi Maoziwam, I mean. He fell out of a building. The old boss killed him." Carl stares at it, slowly processing it.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:10 PM
Harriet pushes aside the implications of that for a second. "So.. that's. Carl. You know what that means, right?"
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"Uh… Do I?" He’s playing dumb. The act is too weak to fool anyone.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:13 PM
"If he killed Maoziwam, he could kill anyone, Carl. You know what kind of man he is. You know what this means he could do - and already did do."
4:14 PM
"He killed your brother. A part of you is gone and won't come back. You've lost something crucial and irreplaceable because no one thought to think of you for even a minute. You're irrelevant to him, Carl. He killed your mentor and your brother because he thought they were disposable. And so are you."
4:15 PM
"You don't have anyone. They've all left you in the cold because they don't see anything worth saving in you. I'm the only one you have. I'm the only one that has you."
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"What if…. What if I’m- What if I’m not smart enough to have thought of that? Huh? What then?" Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:17 PM
"It's okay, Carl. You don't need to be smart. It's fine. I'll do all the thinking for you. Just call off the men and we'll make everything right again."
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"…I-" His eyes shift around. "You won’t… You wouldn’t betray me, right?"
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:19 PM
"Never."
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"Then would you- Will you-" He tries to make an overly confident face. "Ugh… Never mind." He turns around. "I’m gonna- I’m gonna go talk to him. See you later. It’s… I’ll figure things out. Can you guys go find the boss instead of harming, my uh… My secretary." He says this to the mercenaries.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:25 PM
"Just... remember, Carl. You can't trust anyone else. Him especially. I have your best interests it heart. If you.. if you remember that the world wants to take whatever it can from you, chew you up and throw you away, you'll be better off in the long run."
4:25 PM
"I'm telling you this because I care about you. I don't want you to make the mistake of putting your trust anywhere else."
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Carl is freaking out. "…Yeah." He runs away from Harriet in a panic. "Not bad." Alexi is let go as the mercenaries follow Carl.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:31 PM
Harriet exhales, shaking. "Fucking hell."
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"What a psychopath…" Alexi dusts themself off.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:38 PM
Harriet checks her surroundings, nervous. "Are.. any more mercenaries going to jump out of alleyways?"
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"Let’s get out of here before we find out."
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:47 PM
Harriet brushes herself off. "I... okay. Alright. Where are we going?"
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"For now, Shelk. Less police presence there. Because it’s richer, obviously. There should be a bridge to it nearby." Alexi grabs Harriet’s wheelchair and starts rolling it.
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:50 PM
((I have to go - do you still want to do a makeup session on the 3rd or))
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((If you want))
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Harriet Kadin 12/30/2023 4:53 PM
((okayyy))
4:54 PM
((i'm also gonna need time to figure out wtf to do abt this situation/the prospect of fleeing but yeah the 3rd should work))
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((Saturday))
11:36 AM
((Unless you want to do the 3rd))
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Harriet Kadin 1/3/2024 1:19 PM
((not today probably, saturday))
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"For now, Shelk. Less police presence there. Because it’s richer, obviously. There should be a bridge to it nearby." Alexi grabs Harriet’s wheelchair and starts rolling it.
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 2:15 PM
Harriet pauses for a minute. Stares at her hands. Gently pushes Alexi off her. "Back in junior year - AP English Lit - I had this script assigned to me, to do a bad book report on. It was... a pointless indulgence in self-masturbatory academia bullshit, but.. it feels pertinent, right now. Did you ever read Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead?"
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Dana Craig 1/6/2024 2:16 PM
((I FUCKING LOVE RaGaD))
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"What? No. What are you doing?"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 2:25 PM
"Okay. Just. Give me a second. It's, like, a tragicomedy, based around these two irrelevant side characters from Hamlet."
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"Who cares?"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 2:29 PM
"Shut up for a second and let me talk! The general gist of it is, they're Hamlet's old friends, but they end up selling him out in a bid for power. Circumstances conspire so near the end of the play, they're on a ship with a letter they've been instructed to deliver to the King of England, but they've realized it's demanding their own execution. All the options they have left suck - they can jump off the boat and drown, or return to England and be hanged."
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"Okay?"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 2:34 PM
"I remember trying to make a lot of arguments against them being doomed. Like, couldn't they just lie and say the letter was lost, when the King asked for it? Or forge a new one? But I was missing the point, as my teacher outlined for me - no matter where they ran, they'd be in danger of being recognized. They didn't know how things were in Denmark, and to return would be to risk their life. Once they started running, it was over. They would never stop. They'd run until they ran out of places to run to."
2:36 PM
"Do you understand what I'm trying to get at? Rosencratz and Guildenstern don't fucking matter. Hamlet arranges their death. They die."
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"Okay cool. Yay for suicide. Personally, I want to live. I don’t care how the deck is stacked. Don’t get all pathetic and weepy on me after I save you twice."
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 2:38 PM
"That's not the point I'm trying to make! I don't think we should just roll over and die, I'm not - citing 12th grade AP Literature at you to try and get you to do some kind of dual suicide thing. I'm just saying - we will literally never ever ever get to be normal or happy or well-adjusted people if we run away. The moment we leave - it's over. The curtains close. We become the most pathetic side characters, and we're chased across the ends of the earth until we're shot to death."
2:40 PM
"I'm not doing this as some form of - of self-harm. I'm not - I don't want to go back because I think it'll be more efficient to organize our own mutual destruction this way. I just want to have a choice for once in my fucking life, okay? I don't want to run anymore. I want to fix things - on account of making things better for us, not worse. It's not about moral obligation or being thrown in jail for repentance anymore." (edited)
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Alexi grabs her by the shirt collar and pulls her up from the wheelchair. "Get over yourself, Harriet. Who gives a fuck about being normal well-adjusted people? You think that decides happiness? We make our own happiness. We don’t go around crawling on the ground terrified Carl fucking Tucker might decide to not give you his personal fucking permission to be happy. You take shit regardless of if society tells you not to. You don’t let the world tell you what to do, you run when needed and win the next day. Because I always win. And I don’t fucking need anyone to agree with me on that. I’m not gonna be a pathetic side character or whatever. I’ll stop the whole show to focus on me."
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:04 PM
Harriet makes a startled noise, but stares Alexi directly in the eyes from the uncomfortable position of being grabbed by the shirt collar. "Is that your plan? You're only running away now because it's convenient? Not because you're actually a pussy? You're just scared, you moron. You don't actually plan on coming back or accomplishing our goals. Do you really think you're going to make yourself the protagonist or whatever the fuck by just leaving? That's pathetic."
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Alexi shoves her to the ground. "You’re one to talk. You think I can’t do whatever I want? Fine. Stop me. Come on, show me who’s the pathetic one here!"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:15 PM
Harriet attempts to grab Alexi by the waist and bring xem down to her level, tugging as hard as she can.
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((Roll))
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:17 PM
((1!))
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Harriet pathetically flounders. Alexi moves away, laughing smugly. "There’s your goddamn doomed fantasy. I hope you’re proud of yourself."
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:20 PM
"Shut the fuck up and get on my level," Harriet hisses between gritted teeth, attempting to latch onto the hem of Alexi's pants(?). "You pathetic coward! You won't win! All you ever do is run away!"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:22 PM
((9))
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Alexi escapes it again. "I saved you you ungrateful child! Not everyone’s doomed forever! I make my own happiness, while you’re satisfied with the endless self-punishment!"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:28 PM
"I'm trying not to!" Harriet screams. Her throat is sore. She's exhausted. "I'm trying to be happy! It's really fucking hard! I want to find some middle ground between victim and villain but I don't know how to do that, and I'm trying to get you to help me, you stupid - shit -"
3:28 PM
Harriet grabs onto Alexi again. Tries to pull them down again. This feels, suddenly, like the most important thing. To get someone to actually listen, for once.
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:30 PM
((19))
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Harriet pulls Alexi down to the ground. "Then just be the villain! Be whatever monster children imagine under their beds! You honestly think there’s some perfect middle ground!? You’ve gotta hurt others before they hurt you. That’s all this is!"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:40 PM
Harriet traps her against the ground, hands on their wrists. "It's not! I saw you, earlier! You were terrified of me. I don't want to be like Carl anymore. I don't want to hurt people anymore! I needed you to feel, just for a minute, what it's like to be me all the time. Buried underneath seven feet of dirt. Suffocating to death in a fucking corn silo - do you know how often that happens, on farms? All the time!! I didn't even know that and now I'm scared of being buried to death by corn!"
3:41 PM
Harriet is near incoherent. She presses harder on Alexi's wrist, begging them to understand, if only for a moment, the grounding pain of being Harriet, of letting Harriet happen. "We have to have better than this! We have to want better things than this! This fucking game of - implied threats and violence and being as cruel to each other as possible. I don't want to do this anymore!" (edited)
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"Well you’re a fucking wimp! Terrify me all you want, then you might actually live a little! I thought you had a fucking chance there, but no here comes the pathetic victim baby yet again!"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:47 PM
"Stop trying to get me to hurt you, you idiot! What the hell do you want from me? Just a few days ago you were pissed that I asserted myself and called you an ass after you locked me in your room, and now you want to throw a tantrum because I'm apologizing for threatening to - assault you? To hurt you the same way I was hurt? Why can't you ever be clear with me?? Why do you need me to hurt you so badly?" Harriet tightens her grip.
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"Because, like you said, I’m the fucking villain! Don’t you dare go pitying me!" Alexi headbutts Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 3:54 PM
Harriet spits up blood on Alexi's face. "You're not the villain! You came back for me! You've saved me twice now!! You're doing a really really shit job of being a villain!! All you've ever wanted is to slot yourself into this narrative role because god forbid you actually confront something real about yourself - god forbid you engage with people beyond, what, casting me in opposition to you in your fucked-up game of meat puppet theater!"
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"Ugh!" Alexi tries to grab a gun in his pocket. "I have confronted everything about myself! I created Alexi Braun from fucking nothing! You’re just projecting your own pathetic existence into me!"
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 4:05 PM
((i keep typing entire paragraphs and accidentally deleting them gonna kms))
4:11 PM
Harriet laughs, derisive. "You can dish it out but can't take it, huh? You go on and on about my victim complex but the second I draw completely natural conclusions based off of your behavior you lose your mind and have to get your gun out. Alexi, I'm allowed to hurt you because you're nothing. We're both nothing - but I'm trying to get away from that, I'm trying so hard to operate outside of this moral framework that makes us disposable - that makes us side characters in overwrought Hamlet fanfiction. Would it make you feel better if I told you that the one thing I want more than anything in the world right now is to turn around and go back to the center of the city so I can shoot Carl to death? Would it make you feel better if I told you the specific set of hierarchies and paradigms I've been working inside have literally demanded I be either the angry bitter cripple or the pathetic needy cripple and I'm trying so hard to be anything other than this?? Is it that hard for you to try too? To do away with this stupid villain/hero dichotomy bullshit?"
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"There are no heroes! There’s the people who hurt… And the people who get hurt." Alexi fires a bullet into Harriet’s chest.
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 4:17 PM
Harriet makes a muffled noise and falls to the side. Is she.. bleeding? What's going on?
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"You think being the victim only hurts you, huh? Well look what always got me in trouble. You were the one who got caught by cops, you were the one Carl obsessed over. All… You’ve ever done… Is hurt me." Alexi stumbles up to their feet.
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 4:20 PM
Harriet doesn't know what's happening. She tries to touch her chest.
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She’s bleeding. "What? You don’t want to waste your final words on me? Haven’t I at least earned that much?" Alexi.
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Harriet Kadin 1/6/2024 4:23 PM
Harriet just looks up at them. "Alexi, if you let me die from something this stupid..." She forgets how the rest of the sentence goes. Fuck. She was trying to do an ironic exit thing. An echo.
4:24 PM
It's not fair. Not fair not fair not fair not fair. She wanted to be good. She wanted - to heal from all the fucking abuse she put her body and mind through, for one. She didn't want to be so easily disposed of. She wanted to mean something.
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"Do you know who I am, Harriet?"
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:26 PM
"I... no, I... I wanted to know..."
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"...Yeah, of course you did. Everyone wants to fucking know... Because it just came so easy to all of you, didn't it?"
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:30 PM
"W.....hat?" Harriet's mind is growing foggy.
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"Your whole life's story laid itself out for you and you obediently followed it like a fucking idiot. You… You think you’re better than Carl, don’t you? But you’re just like him. You let yourself be defined by being born a woman just like he defined himself by being born a man. I wasn’t born anything. That’s why I win, Harriet… Because I didn’t get complacent. You got a better start than me… But because I couldn’t definitively be either, I am so much more than you now. I suffered productively. I’m the fucking winner, Harriet." Alexi looks away from Harriet.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:40 PM
Harriet doesn't have anything clever to say. Not anymore. She feels her blood moving wetly out of her. "What... what did you win?... ahhhhhahhh... how is this winning....? Fuck... hurts...." (edited)
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"Maybe you would’ve understood that if you let me help you. So I’ll just leave you with a bit of advice to take to your grave. The only one who decides who you are is yourself. The only one who decides your life is yourself. No one wants you to be happy. Everyone only cares about themselves. If they’re nice to you… If they support you… I bet they’re just jealous like me. It must be nice to be so fucking shameless and unaware." Alexi has started to cry, but she’s not showing their face to Harriet. "…Kill yourself if you don’t want it to hurt." He drops the gun and runs off.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:50 PM
Harriet's breath is strangled. She doesn't want to die. But she doesn't want to keep killing herself for all these people. God. For a second.. she had thought it was going to work. That she wouldn't have to crawl on her hands and knees anymore - begging to be loved. She's so tired. She's been so tired for a long time. Her hands are trembling. Harriet fumbles for her phone.
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Harriet reaches her phone.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:50 PM
She dials Carl's number.
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Harriet loses consciousness. She awakens outside a truck next to Shelk Prison. Carolyn Blythe, Hav’s brother, Bob Smith, Sarah Stanley, and 2 other men are there. Hav's brother shoots Sarah in the head, killing her. Harriet loses her grasp on this body as well. Harriet is floating in an endless void.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:50 PM
Harriet stares down blankly at what's beneath her. She should probably care that Sarah's been shot to death in front of her. She can't. She doesn't feel like anything. Her body is gone. H a r ri e t tries to close her eyes.
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Nothing changes.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:51 PM
H A r r iet doesn't want to talk to you right now. She's had enough. What was the point of this? The suffering. The endless wringer.
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"You could say that's a spoiler." An unfamiliar female voice.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:51 PM
H a r riet looks up. Look, the letters of her name are getting closer together.
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There is a talking cat. "Heya. We meet at last."
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:51 PM
H a rriet scrubs at her eyes. Her limbs feel all limp. "What's happening?" I'm sorry, by the way. I should have told you that earlier. You're a person, and I can't treat you like this.
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"You died. Well, sorta." The cat shrugs. "I'm Ehn, by the way. You're the only one using one of my powers who hasn't met me yet."
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:52 PM
"I.. died?" "I don't want to be dead. This feels - unfair."
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"It was. Thankfully, I'm the metaphorical queen of cheating. And you're still needed for very important business. So congratulations! The unfairness has swung in your favor, and you're going to inexplicably cheat death. Where's my thanks, huh?" Ehn.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 5:53 PM
"...Needed?"
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"I asked for thanks." Ehn rolls over.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 6:04 PM
"...Thanks. I appreciate not being dead."
6:05 PM
"Needed for what?"
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"Don't worry about it! We'll get to that later. You've just gotta know one thing... You might just be the most important person in the universe! Besides me, of course. So let your ego ride high! I'm sure you'll get your amazing comeback story someday. That's how underdog stories go, isn't it?"
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 6:06 PM
"The most important person in the universe?"
6:06 PM
"That sounds incorrect."
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"Well, it's fact no matter what you may think. Your role isn't any time soon, though so... Enjoy your reaaaaaally long nap. Humans for a thing for that right? They probably won't just bury you or something, right? That would get annoying."
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 8:55 PM
"Um. I don't know..."
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Harriet is so tired. You're kind of bullying her, and that's very mean.
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"For now, just enjoy your rest. There's plenty to do here." Ehn vanishes.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 8:55 PM
Where is here? What the fuck are you talking about?? Get BACK here, asshole.
8:56 PM
Harriet floats.
8:56 PM
She can use her full name again. She was having a fit for a minute, but she's fine now.
8:56 PM
See? It's fine.
8:56 PM
Harriet tries to fall asleep, as instructed.
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She's already asleep, but whatever. A comfortable looking bed appears.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 8:57 PM
Harriet doesn't want to think about anything anymore. Harriet doesn't want to think about the olive branch she extended anymore, or how it's gotten her kicked in the face over and over and over and over and over and over and ov
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A literal olive branch appears. Whoops.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 8:57 PM
Harriet frowns.
8:58 PM
"Can... anything happen here?" (edited)
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No one answers that question.
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Harriet Kadin 1/29/2024 8:58 PM
Harriet rephrases, speaking more broadly to the wide space around her. "Can you give me what I want? Do you know that?"
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The world reforms. ((End chapter))